Tuesday, August 17, 2010

First Thought, Best Thought

"First thought, best thought'' was his governing principle: no heed to the high-modernist idea of poem as patiently constructed artifact, but an equally strenuous discipline, for it was only with hours of daily meditation that he maintained his wide-open path from mind to breath.
-William Deresiewicz, NYT, discussing Allen Ginsberg

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