What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.
Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just as good in somebody else's work too. You want to hold out for those things only you can say.
I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.