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“You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.”

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A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

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“from "Semele Recycled" But then your great voice rang out under the skies my name!-- and all those private names for the parts and…

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In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

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“Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. ”

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A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,

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