Well they can, if they’re able, and obviously many poor parents aren’t able, but if they’re able, surround their children with good books, with books of poetry. Not just poetry they like, and I’m speaking to teachers as well, fill your classroom full of books of poetry, all kinds of poetry, serious, humorous, all kinds of verse forms.
And what you’re doing is allowing the children to see the magic of language, what language can do for them. And to them, it really is an emotional experience. At least that’s the way I see it in reading poetry and I read poetry every single day, there’s not a day goes by that I don’t read poetry.