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Certainly The Modern Poets I Cherish Most Are Disturbing Spirits; They Do Not Come To Coo.

Be What You Are. Give What Is Yours To Give. Have Style. Dare.

I Have Walked Through Many Lives, Some Of Them My Own, And I Am Not Who I Was, Though Some Principle Of Being Abides, From Which I Struggle Not To Stray.

...few Young Poets [are] Testing Their Poems Against The Ear. They're Writing For The Page, And The Page, Let Me Tell You, Is A Cold Bed.

We Have To Learn How To Live With Our Frailties. The Best People I Know Are Inadequate And Unashamed.