"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

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"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."

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"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."

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"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."

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"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."

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