Obviously the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves...
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
A friend said to me 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well...
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
