A:  I think people who try to compartmentalize 
Marshall and ask was he this or that are missing 
the boat. He was a pan-intellectual, he covered a 
tremendous amount of ground. I think he was a 
very strong scholar. He loved his scholarship, he 
was proud of his scholarship. His memory was 
immense. He could dip into that well and pull out 
the most extraordinary stuff. His strength as a 
poet came from either his recklessness or daring—
and were do you cross the line on those two—
which allowed him to throw out stuff—ideas, 
judgments, images without reflection. He was in a 
sense the joy of a Freudian analyst because he put 
his censor to sleep when he went into creative