Robert Earl Hayden

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“What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

“A man’s own good breeding is his best security against other people’s ill-manners.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saints
balanced upon the switchblades of that air
and sang.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)