I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
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