Hands, do what you're bid Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
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