Michael Bamford

“Why do you treasure your voice
when to be one thing
is to be next to nothing?”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

“I write about you all the time, I said aloud. Every time I say "I", it refers to you.”
― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

“I’m capable of staying sober unless anything happens.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Robinson Jeffers longed throughout his life ]for a poetry of 'pure undoubtable being'], but could not bear to relinquish his moral connection with the humanity he continually condemned for its self-centeredness.”
― Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry