Young Poet

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“It wasn’t idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgement, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.”
—Raymond Williams (1921–1988)

“To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps
To some reader a latticework of regrets ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)