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"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage."
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"In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity."

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"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."

"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try."
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