David Meltzer Professions : Poet Born : February 17, 1937 Died : December 31, 2016 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by David Meltzer 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. David Meltzer break boundaries giving I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution. David Meltzer revolution language There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too. David Meltzer writing Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors