I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
Category Archive: 1950
In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there’s language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.
Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don’t recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We’ve seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.
Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.
Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members’ interests.
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn’t exist or inhere in poems alone.