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"And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always."
"I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much."
"I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love."
"I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man."
"I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey."
"Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling."
"I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one."
"I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!"
"I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet."
"And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing."