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What You Have To Realize When You Write Poetry, Or If You Love Poetry, Is That Poetry Is Just Naturally The Greatest God Damn Thing That Ever Was In The Whole Universe

We've Always Had A Tradition In America Of Hounding Our Artists To Death. Look At The List Of Our Great Artists, You See A Continual History Of Defeat, Frustration, Poverty, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction. The Best Poets Of My Generation Are All Suicides.

A Poet Is Someone Who Stands Outside In The Rain Hoping To Be Struck By Lightning.

What I Want Is To Be Willing To Fail Rather Than Stagnate.

Poetry Makes Possible The Deepest Kind Of Personal Possession Of The World.