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.

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

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

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.