“Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.”
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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
