In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private schools. We're turning into Victorian England at a very rapid rate.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too far, so does experiment with writing about politics in poetry and what the politics of poetry is.

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.