I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.