Tuesday Poem: Maya Angelou - Cooking up a Poem

From a recent interview with Maya Angelou:

Is cooking like writing poetry?

Yes, cooking is like writing poetry, but it’s also like building a house. You want the best ingredients. When you’re writing a poem, you hope to have a good vocabulary, and to choose the nouns and pronouns and verbs carefully. The way you put them together will determine how they affect another person. And it’s really because you’ve been careful in the choice of your ingredients and respectful of how they work together. That’s true of all the efforts in life.

Maya's latest book is:  Great Food, All Day Long, Random House,  2011