it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature_ at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes_ is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.
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Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature_ at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it comes_ is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune.
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