If You Write Well, You Don't Have

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

The Women Of The South Have Brought Into American Literature A Unique Mixture Of Domesticity And Grotesquerie.

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 Trains Himself To Stand Out In A Storm And Be Struck By Lightning. If He Is Lucky Enough To Be Struck Six Times, He Becomes Immortal. Randall Jarrell Said It And He's Right.

If It Were Thought That Anything I Wrote Was Influenced By Robert Frost, I Would Take That Particular Piece Of Mine, Shred It, And Flush It Down The Toilet, Hoping Not To Clog The Pipes.