He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.