[to Become A Poet] The Most Important

We Eat Up Artists Like There's Going To Be A Famine At The End.

Educational Progress Is A National Concern; Education Is A Private One.

Storytelling Is How History Is Passed. It's What Our Ancestors Did, It's What Everybody's Done. It Has To Come Back Into A Story Because Otherwise, It's Stuck In This Book And It's Boring And It's Academic And I'm Not Against Intelligence And I'm Not Against Education, I Don't Want To Be Misunderstood, But We Have Tell The Stories To Our Young People A Little Bit Early And History Gives Us A Lot Of Things.

Poetry Is Like Air. It's One Of The Necessary Things. Everyone Benefits From Poetry. And As You Know, Poetry Is International. There Are Only Two Things That Are Truly International, Poetry And Wine.

I Like What They're Doing. I Think They're Doing A Good Job, And I Know That A Lot Of People Are Upset By Them. These Are Great Young Men And Women, And They're Bold, And They Are Saying To America, "something's Going To Change." I'm Very Proud Of Them.