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“It’s really hard to make any kind of assumption based on how last year was, such a weird year, the unsuccess we had, that kind of stuff. It wasn’t a very fun season,” he said during a chat outside the team’s practice facility in Irvine.

Auden instructed poets to “sing of human unsuccess/in a rapture of distress.”

Besides, in one sense, it doesn’t matter much if you secede by force of arms as your forebears tried, with such spectacular unsuccess, almost 160 years ago.

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress;

What made him a poet was his extraordinary facility with and love for words, but what made him a great poet was the unprotesting willingness with which he yielded to the “curse” of vulnerability to “human unsuccess” on all levels of human existence—vulnerability to the crookedness of the desires, to the infidelities of the heart, to the injustices of the world.