Yet Technique Matters, Even So. God Uses

Poetry Makes Possible The Deepest Kind Of Personal Possession Of The World.

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 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.

William Packard Surely Must Be One Of The Great Editors Of Our Time.

Find Out What You Do Best, And Then Don't Do It.