“What more can the poem do? O Love, did you know that Czeslaw Milosz was right when he argued ‘What is poetry that cannot save nations or people?’ You are my nation. I only wanted to write poems to save you.” WritingDeathPoetryDyingDepressionChronic Illness Book:Death Prefers the Minor Keys Source: Death Prefers the Minor Keys
“Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias, my brother. Every window a tenor leans, there are sopranos in the olive branches. And all across the globe the world turns to crescendos.” PoetryPavarottiSean Thomas DoughertyArias Book:Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line Source: Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line