James Dickey Thinking Quotations

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.

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.