To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
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 don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.