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Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

Love is proved in the letting go.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.

They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.