POETRY

If you should see
a man
walking
down a crowded street
talking to himself,
don't run
in the opposite direction
but run toward him
for he is a poet.

(Ted Jones)

"Excrement! That's what I think of J. Evans Prichard; Be gone J. Evans Prichard.....This is a battle, a war, and casualties could be your hearts and souls. Armies of academicians going on measuring poetry........... No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race; and the human race is filled with passion.

Poetry, beauty, romance, love, those are what we stay alive for."

(from the movie "Dead Poets Society". A speach by Robin Williams to his young students.)