A lot happens by accident in poetry.
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I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
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When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
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Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
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