“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
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“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
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