"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure."
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Source: Collected Poems preface (1939)
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