ALT Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live, and they're not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg's poems or anybody's poems! Until... Their father dies, they go to a funeral, you lose a child,

ALT somebody breaks your heart, they don't love you anymore. And all of a sudden, you're desperate for making sense out of this life. "Has anybody ever felt this bad before? How did they come out of this cloud?"

ALT Or the inverse—something great. You meet somebody and your heart explodes! You love them so much you can't even see straight! You know, you're dizzy! "Did anybody feel like this before? What is happening to me?"

ALT And that's when art's not a luxury, it's a sustenance. You need it.