If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.