"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it."
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Source: Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.
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