“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.” FeelsSometimesOughtGuilt Book:Self-interviews Source: Self-interviews
“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.” FeelsMindHumansStatesFeelingsHuman BeingsWorstProduceOughtSentencesState Of MindPeculiarEntitledDeprivedDetachment Book:Self-interviews Source: Self-interviews
“I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.” ThinkingWayGivingReasonAbleAsksOughtOneself Author:James Dickey
