I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel read 2 000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989 my first piano teacher sent...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.