What I Want Is To Be Willing

The New York Quarterly Is An Amazing, Intelligent, Crazy, Creative, Strange, And Indispensable Magazine.

You Are Bound, My Hunch Is, To Make It Just Fine.

We've Always Had A Tradition In America Of Hounding Our Artists To Death. Look At The List Of Our Great Artists, You See A Continual History Of Defeat, Frustration, Poverty, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction. The Best Poets Of My Generation Are All Suicides.

What I Want Is To Be Willing To Fail Rather Than Stagnate.

I Need About One Hundred Fifty Drafts Of A Poem To Get It Right, And Fifty More To Make It Sound Spontaneous.