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“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)

“Something
Ought to be written about how this affects
You when you write poetry:
The extreme austerity of an almost empty mind
Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate
Something between breaths....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)