I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.
Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
The poetry of country music will survive.
For months I had been trying to be less myself.