3 Quotes by Michael Donaghy

So this talk, or touch if I were there,Should work its effortless gadgetry of love,Like Dante’s heaven, and melt into the air.If it doesn’t, of course, I’ve fallen. So much is chance,So much agility, desire, and feverish care,As bicyclists and harpsicordists proveWho only by moving can balance,Only by balancing move.

Here’s me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here’s you asking if it hurt. Here’s where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.