For Several Centuries What Has Passed For

I Hardly Remember How I Started To Write Poetry. It's Hard To Imagine What I Thought Poetry Could Do.

The Ancient Greek "oral Poets" All Had This Anxiety About The Deficiencies Of Their Memories And Always Began Poems By Praying To The Muse To Help Them Remember.

You Pay Your Money, You Take Your Choice. I Get The Audience My Language Attracts And I Lose The Ones It Repels.

The Sophists' Paradoxical Talk Pieces And Their Public Debates Were Entertainment In 5th Century Greece. And In That World, Socrates Was An Entertainer.

I Can Manage A Prose Format As Long As I Keep Closer To Laurence Sterne Than To Henry James.