21st-century Poet Quotes

I really find listening to and reading the work of lyricists and songwriters as essential to my work as reading poetry itself. It is all poetry.

When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.

Naoki Higashida