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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people…
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by…
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The…
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped…
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…
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I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left…
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious…
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.
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I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out…
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