There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
_John Cage

I don’t look on poetry as closed works. I feel they’re going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
_John Ashbery

That is what I did with Jack, and that’s why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
_David Amram