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He said also that he sometimes wrote poems that were for himself alone, that he should not care ever to publish, because they were too delicate for publication. {105} Quite akin to this was another remark made by him to the same friend, that
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The two remarks limit one another; the desire for recognition only begins when the longing for mere expression is satisfied. Thoroughly practical and methodical and industrious, Longfellow yet needed some self-expression first of all. It is impossible to imagine him as writing puffs of himself, like Poe, or volunteering reports of receptions given to him, like Whitman. He said to Mr. Winter, again and again,
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What you desire will come, if you will but wait for it.