I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anythin...
I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.
Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.
In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
... Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavageAs though they would shriekLike things smothered by their ownGreen, mindless, unkillable ghosts.In Georgia, the legend saysThat you must close yo...
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
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...