Charles Simic

A Cornell box is like a poem, a place where unlikely things come together to give the viewer a new aesthetic experience. Beauty for Cornell is something one finds. I never met him, but knew people who did, and he’d say things like, On the Twenty-eighth Street IRT station, there’s a great gum machine with a broken mirror that’s really beautiful. That way of seeing New York City made a lot of sense to me.
-Charles Simic, Paris Review