- I think [Allen 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".
- A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
- The poet is one who, because he cannot love, imagines what it would be like if he could.
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