Quotes & Sources The Fairfield Review,An On-line Literary Magazine for the Global Community.
"Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.
Poetry, after all, began as a series of mnemonic devices, a check against forgetfulness. While political and religious leaders alike find new ways to inflame the divisions that separate humans, ethnographers, folklorists and modern balladeers are among the others who continue the quieter work of revealing threads sewn into the common coat of all peoples. From the anonymous folk who did not wait for print to begin singing to Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man," telling stories may be the first and last thing that joins us together — stories of romance, adventure, quests, pirates, twins, homicide, shipwrecks, outlaws and, yes, war"
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