I mean don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And...
Life goes on and I'm moving on to the next thing but I hope the soaps that...
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies but it's clear that in America poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.