"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love."
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Source: 'Collected Poems' (1939) 'The Figure a Poem Makes'
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