For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.