I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel read 2 000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989 my first piano teacher sent...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
