Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things - pg. 37

Lou was one of those men who confused passing happiness or misery with th sources of art. The world is full of them. When one disaster or ecstasy is over, they turn to another. The war in Vietnam has spawned a thousand poets. They think their rage and impotence will make the poem. They think their rage and impotence will make the poem. It is a banal truism that all the occasional poet needs to write a poem is an occasion.