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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

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Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live,...more

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And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace