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Billy Collins

(from 1999): As I’m writing, I’m always reader conscious. I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who I’m talking to, and I want to make sure I don’t talk too fast, or too glibly. Usually I try to create a hospitable tone at the beginning of a poem. Stepping from the title to the first lines is like stepping into a canoe. A lot of things can go wrong.

(from 2004): Moving from the position of United States poet laureate to New York State poet laureate might seem like a demotion or a drop in rank to the military-minded. It might even appear that I am heading toward eventually being crowned laureate of my ZIP code. But in fact, it is very gratifying to be honored again as a representative of poetry, this time by my native state where I grew up — more or less — and continue to live.

Louise Bourgeois

Bourgeois’s essentially diaristic conception of drawing: the images she draws are made in immediate psychic response to the experience of daily life.

Otte (a rap song)

Paul Klee

“Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible,”

Piet Modrian

This is the painting that knocks the wind out of me at the MOMA. Brings tears. Seems the most sacred.

‘Everything was spotless white, like a laboratory. In a light smock, with his clean-shaven face, taciturn, wearing his heavy glasses, Mondrian seemed more a scientist or priest than an artist. The only relief to all the white were large matboards, rectangles in yellow, red and blue, hung in asymmetric arrangements on all the walls. Peering at me through his glasses, he noticed my glance and said: “I’ve arranged these to make it more cheerful.”‘

He painted a fake tulip white because he banned the colour green from being in his house

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