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I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

The man turned away from Bobby, and the finality with which he did it made me glance at Bobby to see if he had disappeared as a result.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

Find something only you can say

Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

There is no whole truth, but this is what we have,
And it goes on
Beyond impact, beyond reach, beyond recall ...

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

I don't believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

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.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.