By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

