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"But it's a puzzlement, to be friends with a man who's cheerful, good-natured, open, kind, intelligent, brimming with curiosity, all the while knowing that he has another side, less safe, less settled, more dramatic, far removed from his usual calm sea of courtliness."

He was one of the greatest, most luminous poets of our times. Words are unbearably helpless in trying to offer a radiography of my grief....