More From Walter Mosley
- "I think that people don’t know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, ‘I know how to hire someone.’"
- "I’ve always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things."
- "My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo."
More In Poetry
- "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite."― Paul Dirac
- "How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry."― Allen Tate
- "I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don’t say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."― James Laughlin