What I Want Is To Be Willing

I Want A Fever, In Poetry: A Fever, And Tranquillity.

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.

To Live A Very Long Time... Is Supposed To Be The Desired Object Of All Human Life. But It Is Not. The Main Thing Is To Ride The Flood Tide... How Glorious It Is To Create! For Those Few Moments Of A Lifetime When The Stream Is Running Full And Deep: Those Are The Justification For Everything.

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

To Be Precise And Reckless: That Is The Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished.