There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

- David Meltzer

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.

- David Meltzer

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

- David Meltzer