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Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.


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Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.



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Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.



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Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.



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And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.





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