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"According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for."
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"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."
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"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."
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Dream
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