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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, January-May, 1943
1943-02-21 Page 3
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-3- Then I Think how good and understanding and loving you are and I know everything will be alright I been rereading your discussion Curtis What's His Name. The man has a colossal ego. He is so in love with himself that there no room for love of others in him. How could he hold the slightest regard for you to curse and damn you even in verse. Perhaps he has a facile hand at turning out verse but does real poetry threaten and try to frighten? Being in love with you myself I can't see how anyone can help but be too. Yet I wonder if his persistence isn't a manifestation of the magnitude of his ego.
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-3- Then I Think how good and understanding and loving you are and I know everything will be alright I been rereading your discussion Curtis What's His Name. The man has a colossal ego. He is so in love with himself that there no room for love of others in him. How could he hold the slightest regard for you to curse and damn you even in verse. Perhaps he has a facile hand at turning out verse but does real poetry threaten and try to frighten? Being in love with you myself I can't see how anyone can help but be too. Yet I wonder if his persistence isn't a manifestation of the magnitude of his ego.
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