Date: December, 1917
"I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds."
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Date: September 7, 1923
"It was caparison of mind and cloud / And something given to make whole among / The ruses that were shattered by the large."
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Date: 1941, 1942
"I think that his [the poet's] function is to make his imagination theirs and that he fulfills himself only as he sees his imagination become the light in the minds of others."
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Date: 1942
"The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind, / If one may say so."
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