
Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Beautiful Fighters
Lyrics, Secret
Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
“I am extravagant, but always with a particular piece: perhaps the shoes or the glasses…”
Source: From Watch word for style http://www.essence-magazine.co.uk/Interview_March_2017.html, essence-magazine.co.uk, March 2017.
Context: As the famous Italian actor Vittorio Gassman said: “You can just have one extravagant piece, more is not classy.”
"The circle game"
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
Context: The weapons
that were once outside
sharpening themselves on war
are now indoors
there, in the fortress,
fragile
in glass cases; Why is it
(I’m thinking
of the careful moulding
round the stonework archways)
that in this time, such
elaborate defences keep
things that are no longer
(much)
worth defending?
From his official declaration of candidacy, June 23, 2003
“Maybe the ghosts have a glass ceiling? Break through that glass ceiling ghosts! I plan to.”
Ghost Hunters. October 31, 2006.
In reference to moving up the World Wrestling Entertainment roster, despite a lack of a conventional wrestling physique.
Ghost Hunters
“And what is Life? — An hour-glass on the run”
"What is Life?"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 304.
"The Cinderella Syndrome" http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/22/magazine/the-cinderella-syndrome.html?pagewanted=all, The New York Times (22 March 1981)