The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

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

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.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

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

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.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.