"Men expect too much, do too little."
"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman."
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Source: allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
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