What I Want Is To Be Willing

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A Poet Is Someone Who Stands Outside In The Rain Hoping To Be Struck By Lightning.

He Can't Imagine The Result Of The Mission Because He Never Saw It.

To Be Precise And Reckless: That Is The Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished.

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.