Poetry Foundation & POETRY magazine

When a man his size can meet
Your eyes for just a blip of time
And send a thought like SHINE
SHINE SHINE SHINE SHINE
Straight to your mind. Bowie,
I want to believe you.

Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes? by Tracy K. Smith

5 years ago -

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T.S. ELIOT

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets

–“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“, Poetry, June 1915

According to the Guardian, David Bowie, Arcade Fire, Chuck D, Tori Amos, and Arcade Fire number among Eliot’s many fans.

Watch for the Arcade Fire’s Will Butler in our June 2012 issue.

(Source: poetryfoundation.org)