Bout Robinson

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“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Dark, marvelous, and inscrutable he moved on
Till down the fiery distance he was gone,”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)