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Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

I had the gift, and arrived at the technique
That called up spirits from the vasty deep...

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

Doctors of Science, what is man that he
Should hope to come to a good end?
The best is not to have been born.

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.