They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is… If you let it out too early, they… your poem will fly away, and this time they are absolutely…

Tonight the moon is a cracker, with a bite out of it floating in the night, and in a week or so according to the calendar

In most self-portraits it is the f… Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming… Van Gogh stares out of a halo of… Rembrant looks relieved as if he w… from painting The Blinding of Sam…

You are so beautiful and I am a f… to be in love with you is a theme that keeps coming up in songs and poems. There seems to be no room for vari…

You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine... —Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet and the wine.

There is a section in my library f… and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry of Ch… and in the center a row of impertu… the ones you can turn to anytime,

It seems these poets have nothing up their ample sleeves they turn over so many cards so ea… telling us before the first line whether it is wet or dry,

I knew that James Whistler was pa… but I was still surprised when I… of his mother at the Musée d’Orsa… among all the colored dots and mob… of the French Impressionists.

“Every time we get a big gale arou… some people just refuse to batten… we estimate that ice skating into a sixty mile an hour wind, fully exerting

Baudelaire considers you his brother, and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs as if to make sure you have not closed the book, and now I am summoning you up again, attentive...

All you have to do is listen to th… sometimes talks to his wife at a t… and notice how intent he is on mak… even though her lower lip is begin… and you will know why the women in…

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem

This is not bad— ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft… of these earphones,

As sure as prehistoric fish grew l… and sauntered off the beaches into… working up some irregular verbs fo… first conversation, so three-year-… enter the phase of name-calling.

How agreeable it is not to be tour… wandering her cities and ascending… How much better to cruise these lo… fully grasping the meaning of ever… and all the sudden hand gestures o…