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"Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation."
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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."

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."

"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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