“I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.” WellsWantedDesirePerfectPoetScientistWho I AmObservationMake SenseDelightedAnalyzingNaturalistScience Love Author:Jane Goodall
“Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.” GivingYearsEndsSeemsWrittenPoetTheoryMonthsGardenStrongerMovedObservationPlentyMelancholyBrotherhoodSwingsRemarksNovemberRhymingIndigestionLamentationYear End Book:The garden of a commuter's wife Source: The garden of a commuter's wife
“I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesProcessPoetPeriodsMajorsPressureTinyObservationSufficientFragmentsEmergingSkillfulSplinters Author:Conrad Aiken