When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

