W. S. Di Piero

Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.

— W. S. Di Piero

You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos…

— W. S. Di Piero

When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of…

— W. S. Di Piero

When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most…

— W. S. Di Piero

A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and…

— W. S. Di Piero

I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures…

— W. S. Di Piero

When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did…

— W. S. Di Piero

This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the…

— W. S. Di Piero

Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the…

— W. S. Di Piero

One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out…

— W. S. Di Piero