She wouldn't like these readings anyway. I don't think it is true. I think it's a fundamental hunger, first of all. It's like the hunger for dancing, as well as walking, singing. That's why we have cuisine as well as food, love as well as copulation.
Poetry is something children like intuitively.
I hope that kids in school will see John Doherty and some of these others, too. I hope they become teaching tools. But it's too basic an appetite. It's too much at the center of our intelligence. And I do think this matter of it being on a individual scale, it's too important.