I think [Allen 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".
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
The poet is one who, because he cannot love, imagines what it would be like if he could.