I wish I could convey, in particular to young people, whose mental appetites seem whetted so easily these days by the transient and the trashy – I wish I could communicate the quiet depths, the delights, the leaping excitements of great poetry. Perhaps I should remind the young inclined to scoff, that Bob Marley has become a world icon at least partly because his best songs have the beauty and enduring significance of good poetry. And I hope lovers of popular music are aware that the late Frank Sinatra in his famous song I Did It My Way only
