David Meltzer

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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
Collection: Giving
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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
Collection: Writing
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I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.
- David Meltzer
Collection: Revolution