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I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poet...more

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What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a...more

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The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.

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But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?