Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
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.
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.