“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.”
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
I love to write poetry.
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
