An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian [whose] role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are – James Baldwin

Philosophy

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It’s a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault. – Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry

We say to ‘rise’ to fame and to ‘fall’ in love. Correction. We fall in fame and we rise to love.

Laughs