September Twenty-second, Sir, The Bough Cracks With

If Youth Is A Defect, It Is One We Outgrow Too Soon.

We Are All Old-timers, Each Of Us Holds A Locked Razor.

Poetry Is Not The Record Of An Event: It Is An Event.

I'm Sure That Writing Isn't A Craft, That Is, Something For Which You Learn The Skills And Go On Turning Out. It Must Come From Some Deep Impulse, Deep Inspiration. That Can't Be Taught, It Can't Be What You Use In Teaching.

It's A Completely Powerful And Serious Book, As Good As Anything In Prose Or Poetry Written By A 'beat' Writer, And One Of The Most Alive Books Written By Any American For Years. I Don't See How It Could Be Considered Immoral.