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.
James DickeyThere are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.
James Dickey