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" The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. "

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" O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. "

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" Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. "

" 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. "