If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.

— Randall Jarrell Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

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