Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.
Dan SimmonsI loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
Dan SimmonsFate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
Dan SimmonsIt started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri
Dan Simmons