“A young man’s ambition — to get along in the world and make a place for himself — half your life goes that way, till you’re 45 or 50. Then, if you’re lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.”

The New York Times (2 June 1981)

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American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905–1989

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