James Dickey

“She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.”

“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 want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.”