I Do Not Think [poetry] Is More,

In A Society Where Some People Are Far More Educated Than Others, In Which Public Education Is Ill-funded - Here I Am Speaking Of The U.s. - While We Build More And More Prisons To Incarcerate Youth Who Ought To Be In School, There Is Already A Gap Between Those With Education And Those Without. Those With Educational Privilege Can Be Seen As Arrogant, Remote, Alien - And Very Often They Believe Themselves Superior.

War Is An Absolute Failure Of Imagination, Scientific And Political. That A War Can Be Represented As Helping A People To 'feel Good' About Themselves, Or Their Country, Is A Measure Of That Failure.

In The Interstices Of Language Lie Powerful Secrets Of The Culture.

Weather Abroad And Weather In The Heart Alike Come On Regardless Of Prediction.

No Woman Is Really An Insider In The Institutions Fathered By Masculine Consciousness.