I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I lov…

- Michael Donaghy

Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the he…

- Michael Donaghy

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

- Michael Donaghy

The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other Americ…

- Michael Donaghy