W. S. Merwin

while the rain fell all around us
I listened to you breathing
I wanted to remember
the sound of your breath
but we lay there forgetting

-- W. S. Merwin, "The Sound of Forgetting"

Dino

“When a Bing Crosby movie ever came to Steubenville, I would stay there all day and watch. And that’s where I learned to sing, ‘cause it’s true I don’t read a note,” he would say. “I learned from Crosby, and so did Sinatra, and Perry Como. We all started imitating him. He was the teacher for all of us.”

-- Dean Martin


[Source: Nick Tosches, “Dino: Living High In the Dirty Business of Dreams”]