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I had just time to look into the kitchen, and saw your birthday feast getting ready, a nice dish of crusts, bones, pills, cotton-bobbins, and rhubarb and magnesia…

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest—

Give this enclosure to whoever shd send me a ballot to mark for JFK—

…Now, good night, truest Dove in the world. You will never fly away from me; and it is only the infinite impossibility of it that enables me to sport with the idea…

I hope too your room doesn’t look sad & lonely now my lethargic cadging figure isn’t in it.

What you look for in the world is not simply for what you want to know, but for more than you want to know, and more than you can know, better than you had wished for, and sometimes something draws you to a discovery and there is no other happiness quite the same…

I feel like a spider in a bathtub—can’t get my dragline anchored to anything. (I also walk into glass doors, and take the bruises.)

We talk of you together, then diverge on life, then hide in you again, as a safe fold. Don’t leave us long, dear friends! You know we’re children still, and children fear the dark…