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Being an actress, it's hard to publish things without people thinking everything is autobiographical.

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And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

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When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

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Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

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