Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.

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