News at Eleven: Some succumb to deep currents of jealously,

which is unfortunate and shameful. I remember individual things people said to me that were of great importance. When I was first employed by Robert Graves to teach his sons, he used to come up all the time. One day he said to me, "If someone else can write it, don't you write it." He was absolutely right.

from The Salt Lake Tribune: W.S. Merwin: From verse to conservancy

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