Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. "

Related Quotes:

" To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes. "

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

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