In MAXIMUS, TO HIMSELF, the scrubby poet Charles Olson writes, “I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.”
I think of this line a lot. It expresses something I recognize in my own life, not only that I have always felt so late to every party that by the time…
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