And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.
So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.
So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.
The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it's really horrible. Eighteen years ago, I played a mute in one film because I couldn't speak Mandarin. There was another film where I had to speak Vietnamese. It's horrible!
In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.