I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
From James Dickey
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
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