mere air, these words

"What Lorca gave me as no other poet had was a validation of my own emotions, which meant a validation of what I was trying and failing to write…Garcia Lorca’s The Poet in New York taught me I was a worthy human being although I was filled with hatred for the life I was living, for what capitalist, industrialized America had reduced me to."

American poet Philip Levine, “The Poet in New York in Detroit,” New England Review (1991)

(Source: inthegreenmorning)