It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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.
My father's a preacher my mother's a teacher thus I rhyme.
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
