To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

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.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

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.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

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.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

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.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe thats the worst sentence of all to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106 continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth Wringing the handlebar for speed Wild to be wreckage forever.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.