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“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”
“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”
“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good for...”
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profo...”
“I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.”
“Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.”
“How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To m...”
