Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
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The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.Helen Dunmore
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
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