“I find it impossible to think of "favorite" poets. I would rather list the ones I cannot stand.”
Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry
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Billy Collins 9
American poet 1941Related quotes
On starting off in poetry (as quoted in the book “Race and the Modern Artist” https://books.google.com/books?id=4XY8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq)
Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm
“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”
Source: The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XLI: Snowdrops and Maidenly Delights
“I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.”
We prefer “freedom”, we want to be as free as we can, but freedom and responsibility can go together. We’re responsible because we’re writers, and we’ve been at this all our lives…
On the poet having both responsibility and freedom in “Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera” https://gulfstreamlitmag.com/archives/online-archives/current-issue-4/features/interview-with-juan-felipe-herrera/ (Gulf Stream, 2015)
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
Ur-Fascism (1995)
Context: Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from fascism and you still have Franco and Salazar. Take away colonialism and you still have the Balkan fascism of the Ustashes. Add to the Italian fascism a radical anti-capitalism (which never much fascinated Mussolini) and you have Ezra Pound. Add a cult of Celtic mythology and the Grail mysticism (completely alien to official fascism) and you have one of the most respected fascist gurus, Julius Evola... But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism.
