It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials…

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The bottom of the sea is cruel.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in...

I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in...

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation....

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation....

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an...

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an...

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present...

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present...

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic...

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic...

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the...

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the...

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a...

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a...

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am...

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am...