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I want them to notice what a powerful tool literature is, to understand that it helps us to know ourselves and the society we live in. I want them to discover that if they learn to handle language they might not feel as though they're worth nothing, have nothing to say. Finally, I want them to see that reading breeds thinking, and thinking breeds resistance, and surely, especially right now, that is a good thing.

①When I was younger these images altered the way I saw the world. They made me feel somehow present, alert to the shifts in light or weather, to the look of a street or a park or a house.

② To me, the scotch and the poetry work in the same way: they induce intoxication, in just the right degree. The writer reads prose as though drinking clear water from a running stream, but poetry is meant to get you drunk.