We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface le...vel and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. ... poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Billie Holiday's burned voice had as many shadows as lights,... a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano, the gardenia her signature under that ruined face. ... If you can't be free, be a mystery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the day that will always belong to you, lunar clockwork had faltered... and I was certain. Walking the streets of Manhattan I thought: Remember this day. I felt already like an urn, filling with wine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »