Longing, We Say, Because Desire Is Full

There's Very Little Solid Research On Readership, Yet People Make Pronouncements About It All The Time.

There Are Instances: [henry David] Thoreau Read [john] Wordsworth, [john] Muir Read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt Read Muir, And You Got National Parks. It Took A Century For This To Happen, For Artistic Values To Percolate Down To Where Honoring The Relation Of People's Imagination To The Land, Or Beauty, Or To Wild Things, Was Issued In Legislation.

Poetry Is A Man Arguing With Himself; Rhetoric Is A Man Arguing With Others.

It Is Good Sometimes For Poetry To Disenchant Us.

One Way To Escape The Universe In Which Everything Is A Kind Of Media Cartoon Is To Write About The Part Of Your Life That Doesn't Feel Like A Cartoon, And How The Cartoon Comes Into It.