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Things Are Tougher Than We Are, Just As Earth Will Always Respond However We Mess It About.

So Many Things I Had Thought Forgotten Return To My Mind With Stranger Pain: Like Letters That Arrive Addressed To Someone Who Left The House So Many Years Ago.

As A Guiding Principle I Believe That Every Poem Must Be Its Own Sole Freshly Created Universe, And Therefore Have No Belief N 'tradition' Or A Common Myth-kitty Or Casual Allusions In Poems To Other Poems Or Poets, Which Last I Find Unpleasantly Like The Talk Of Literary Understrappers Letting You See They Know The Right People.

It's Easy To Write When You've Nothing To Write About (that Is, When You Are Young).

Life Has A Practice Of Living You, If You Don't Live It.