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[In an interview with Lawrence Barrett, he said: "The literature of the / New World must look to the West for its poetry. "]
Not to the crowded East, / Where, in a well-worn groove, / Like the harnessed wheel of a great machine, / The trammelled mind must move- / Where Thought must follow the fashion of Thought, / Or be counted vulgar and set at naught.