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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…
• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people…
• I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…
• I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left…
• Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by…
• Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious…
• There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.
• The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The…
• I think continually of those who were truly great.
• I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at…
• So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself
• If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

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