David Meltzer Quotes

United States, Poet
February 17, 1937 – December, 31, 2016.

David Meltzer was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians". Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, The New American Poetry 1945–1960.

Also known as Musician

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.

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I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

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There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

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