What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That’s the world, and we all live there.
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It’s endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.
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Birth: | 17th January, 1914 |
Death: | 28th August, 1993 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Poet |
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