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God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

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  2. The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you …
  3. There's a lot of bastards out there!

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