I Once Had The Nerve To Ask

Flight Is The Only Truly New Sensation Than Men Have Achieved In Modern History.

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.

Poetry Is A Hazardous Occupation, Very Hazardous. There May Be Bad Things In There Inside You That Maybe You Can't Handle.

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