Allen and I were wallflowers among the lordly and academic figures,

I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I told him about my dreams of being Blake.

The secret of what we do with this spread attack is that you have to be able to run the ball. It (also) helps if your quarterback can run a little.

By the time Allen read 'Howl' -- and when Snyder then read 'The Berry Feast,' the first deep-ecology poem -- we felt that a body had been thrown against the barricades,

In the age where the eight-cylinder Buick, the grey flannel suit and the tract home represented wholesomeness, ... Semina was the ultimate unwholesome object, and we gloried in it.

We all had our foot on the line. We all believed in that line and none of us have gone back.