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.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.
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.
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.