As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
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I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
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I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.
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I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
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I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.
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