Accompanying the article are eight poems from Hughes's "Birthday Letters": "Fulbright Scholars," "Fidelity," "A Pink Wool Knitted Dress," "A Dream," "The Literary Life," "The Minotaur," "Robbing Myself," and "Freedom of Speech".
Since I robbed myself of Saturday, I did zero work on Sunday.
Yours not for £4m, or £3m, but – and I'm robbing myself here – just two million pounds!
I read the book in the evenings, at night, and also in the daytime, robbing myself of sleep.
Standing there, my hands covering my eyes to physically trigger their awareness of my robbing myself of sight, I asked them to dig deep into the well of their vocabulary and visual acuity to share their visual experience with me.
Flying home from Europe a few months ago, I swiped a credit card through the slot of the in-seat phone, checked my e-mail and robbed myself of one of my two last sanctuaries.
Lest I have robbed myself, Watson, old man!
I feel like I've robbed myself as an avenue for healing through my mild but insistent rationalism.
I was so compelled to get through the finale, but almost right away felt like I robbed myself of enjoying it.
After robbing myself, I enter back into the New York City night and run at unimaginable speeds to plug the hole that is my hunger (metaphors are not my forte).
Perhaps I've come at this game entirely wrongly, robbing myself of an easier path to its secrets, to whatever qualifies it as a classic to thousands of players.
