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I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 25th, 1914

Died: January 7th, 1972

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