Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
We are all participants in the marvelous.
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.