The Poems ... Are Moments When I

It's Frightening For One Artist To See Another One, Any Other One Turn Away From Art.

There Is No Articulate Resonance. The Common Problem, I Suppose, Is To Have More To Say Than Vocabulary And Syntax Can Bear. That Is Why I Am Hunting In These Desiccated Streets. The Smoke Hides The Sky's Variety, Stains Consciousness, Covers The Holocaust With Something Safe And Insubstantial. It Protects From Greater Flame. It Indicates Fire, But Obscures The Source. This Is Not A Useful City. Very Little Here Approaches Any Eidolon Of The Beautiful.

Good Writing Is Clear. Talented Writing Is Energetic. Good Writing Avoids Errors. Talented Writing Makes Things Happen In The Reader's Mind - -vividly, Forcefully.

Everyone In A Position Of Authority Is Hysterical, And Everyone Else Is Pretending To Be Asleep.

If You Are To Stay In The Good Graces Of The Powerful, You Had Best, However Unobtrusively, Please The Servants Of The Powerful.