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The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry	A
His power is his left hand	B
It is idle weak and precious	C
His poverty is his wealth a wealth which may destroy him	D
like Midas Because it is that laziness which is a form of impatience	E
And this he may be destroyed by the gold of the light	F
which never was	G
On land or sea	A
He may be drunken to death draining the casks of excess	H
That extreme form of success	H
He may suffer Narcissus' destiny	A
Unable to live except with the image which is infatuation	I
Love blind adoring overflowing	J
Unable to respond to anything which does not bring love	K
quickly or immediately	A
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The poet must be innocent and ignorant	L
But he cannot be innocent since stupidity is not his strong	M
point	N
Therefore Cocteau said What would I not give	O
To have the poems of my youth withdrawn from	P
existence	E
I would give to Satan my immortal soul	Q
This metaphor is wrong for it is his immortal soul which	R
he wished to redeem	S
Lifting it and sifting it free and white from the actuality of	K
youth's banality vulgarity	A
pomp and affectation of his early	A
works of poetry	A
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So too in the same way a Famous American Poet	T
When fame at last had come to him sought out the fifty copies	U
of his first book of poems which had been privately printed	V
by himself at his own expense	W
He succeeded in securing of the copies burned them	X
And learned then how the last copies were extant	L
As the law of the land required stashed away in the national capital	Y
at the Library of Congress	C
Therefore he went to Washington therefore he took out the last two	Z
copies	U
Placed them in his pocket planned to depart	A2
Only to be halted and apprehended Since he was the author	B2
Since they were his books and his property he was reproached	A2
But forgiven But the two copies were taken away from him	D
Thus setting a national precedent	A2
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For neither amnesty nor forgiveness is bestowed upon poets poetry and poems	C2
For William James the lovable genius of Harvard	A2
spoke the terrifying truth Your friends may forget God	A2
may forgive you But the brain cells record	A2
your acts for the rest of eternity	A2
What a terrifying thing to say	D2
This is the endless doom without remedy of poetry	A2
This is also the joy everlasting of poetry	A2

Delmore Schwartz

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