Authors

Robert Polito

"But I wasn’t a Cardinal, nephew to the Pope, / and you— / you were not a Caravaggio. / So I asked you to be in my movie."

Charles Portis

"As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone."

Stephen Potter

"Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book."

Ezra Pound

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

Padgett Powell

"Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?"

D.A. Powell

"in a protracted stillness, I saw that heron I didn’t wish to disturb / was clearly a white sack caught in the redbud’s limbs"

Kevin Powers

"All pain is the same. Only the details are different."

Cherie Priest

"While the mask-impaired side vision permitted it, Briar watched the door behind her shrink as she rose."