VISIONS & OMENS

"I did not exactly plan a large persona thouht it was within literary bounds set by Walt Whitman and other sympathetic precursors: My original ideal was actually spare and brilliant: to publish nothing but purest gemwork like Rimbaud, with no dross left over prosaic vulnerable quotidian un-eternal tendentious to bore the eager youthful reader seeking visionary diamond. Rimbaud- Whitman, mad sanity, was my ideal."

-"Deliberate Prose : Selected Essays 1952-1995"
- Allen Ginsberg