“It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.”
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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