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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Source: Letter, Sept. 1932, to poet Louis Zukofsky; in The Poetry of Basil Bunting, by Victoria Forde, ch. 2, 1991.
-- Basil Bunting, (Mar 1 1900-1985), English poet; His greatest popularity was during the 1960s as the leader of British literary avant-garde.

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