Solitary Observation Brought Back from a Sojourn in Hell

At midnight tears
Run in your ears.

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Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

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I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

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