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

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

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.

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

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

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

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.