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Birthdays are a time when one stock takes, which means, I suppose, a good spineless mope: I scan my horizon and can discern no sail of hope along my own particular ambition. I tell you what it is: I'm quite in accord with the people who enquire 'What is the matter with the man?' because I don't seem to be producing anything as the years pass but rank self indulgence. You know that my sole ambition, officially at any rate, was to write poems..
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I really am going to meet Forster: I thought I shouldn't, but apparently the old boy E.M.F. is saying with remembered my name & I am bid to John Hewitt's at 8 tomorrow. Shall I ask him if he's a homo? It's the only thing I really want to know about him, you see. I don't even care why he packed up writing.
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What was the rock my gliding childhood struck, / And what bright unreal path has led me here?
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to start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
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Our almost-instinct almost true:What will survive of us is love.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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