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I Think That Too Many Strangers Were In Her [nina Simone's] Life, And Not Enough People That She Knew And Loved.

Poetry Is The Most Informative Of All Of The Arts Because Everything Comes Down To Poetry. No Matter What It Is We Are Describing, Ultimately We Use Either A Metaphor; Or We Say "that's Poetry In Motion." You Drink A Glass Of Wine And Say, "that's Poetry In A Bottle." Everything Is Poetry, So I Think We Come Down To Emotional Information. And That's What Poetry Conveys.

I Think Life Is Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day. For Those Who Grew Up With Cotton Candy The Old-fashioned Way, It Is Very Delicate. Pre-made Cotton Candy That Has Preservatives Is Not Nearly As Good Or True. True Cotton Candy Is Sugar, Color, And Air And It Melts Very Quickly. That Was The Metaphor - It Can't Be Preserved, It Can't Be Put Aside, It Can't Be Banked. It Has To Be Experienced, Like Life.

Favorite Poems Are Like Favorite Children. We Definitely Have Them But We Never Tell As The Others Would Have Their Feelings Hurt.

I Want To Be Clear About This. If You Wrote From Experience, You'd Get Maybe One Book, Maybe Three Poems. Writers Write From Empathy.