"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."

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"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

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"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

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