“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
