As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a career but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The journey not the arrival matters.

The journey, not the arrival, matters.

So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing.

So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing.

A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes its c

A toothache or a violent passion is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance, or insignificance.

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