The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology, religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's own life. I still feel surprised that such various substances can find shelter and nourishment in a poem. A poem in fact may be a sort of nourishing liquid, such as one uses to keep an amoeba alive. If prepared right, a poem can keep an image or a thought or insights on history or the psyche alive for years, as well as our desires and airy impulses.

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.