Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
“I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.”
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”