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Nothing is given which is not taken	A
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Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired	B
freely truly and fully	C
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You would not seek me if you had not found me this is	D
true of all that is supremely desired and admired	B
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An enigma is an animal said the hurried harried	E
schoolboy	F
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And a horse divided against itself cannot stand	G
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And a moron is a man who believes in having too many	C
wives what harm is there in that	H
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O the endless fecundity of poetry is equaled	I
By its endless inexhaustible freshness as in the discovery	C
of America and of poetry	C
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Hence it is clear that the truth is not strait and narrow but infinite	J
All roads lead to Rome and to poetry	C
and to poem sweet poem	K
and from away and towards are the same typography	C
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Hence the poet must be in a way stupid and naive and a	L
little child	M
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Unless ye be as a little child ye cannot enter the kingdom	K
of poetry	C
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Hence the poet must be able to become a tiger like Blake a	L
carousel like Rilke	N
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Hence he must be all things to be free for all impersonations	D
a doormat and a monument	O
to all situations possible or actual	P
The cuckold the cuckoo the conqueror and the coxcomb	K
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It is to him in the zoo that the zoo cries out and the hyena	L
Hello take off your hat king of the beasts and be seated	Q
Mr Bones	D
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And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous	D
He must die a little death each morning	N
He must swallow his toad and study his vomit	J
as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval	R
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The poet must be or become both Keats and Renoir and	S
Keats as Renoir	T
Mozart as Figaro and Edgar Allan Poe as Ophelia stoned	U
out of her mind	V
drowning in the river called forever river and ever	W
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Keats as Mimi Camille and an aging gourmet	X
He must also refuse the favors of the unattainable lady	C
As Baudelaire refused Madame Sabatier when the fair	Y
blonde summoned him	K
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For Jeanne Duval was enough and more than enough	Z
although she cuckolded him	K
With errand boys servants waiters reality was Jeanne Duval	R
Had he permitted Madame Sabatier to teach the poet a greater whiteness	D
His devotion and conception of the divinity of Beauty	C
would have suffered an absolute diminution	A
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The poet must be both Casanova and St Anthony	C
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He must be Adonis Nero Hippolytus Heathcliff and Phaedre	Y
Genghis Kahn Genghis Cohen and Gordon Martini	C
Dandy Ghandi and St Francis	D
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Professor Tenure and Dizzy the dean and Disraeli of Death	A2
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He would have worn the horns of existence upon his head	B2
He would have perceived them regarding the looking glass	D
He would have needed them the way a moose needs a hatrack	N
Above his heavy head and in his loaded eyes black and scorched	C2
He would have seen the meaning of the hat rack above the glass	D
Looking in the dark foyer	Y
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For the poet must become nothing but poetry	C
He must be nothing but a poem when he is writing	N
Until he is absent minded as the dead are	Y
Forgetful as the nymphs of Lethe and a lobotomy	C
the fat weed that rots on Lethe wharf	D2

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