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Goodreads asked Egon H.E. Lass:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Egon H.E. Lass READ! Every day I read ten pages in one book on archaeology, and two more pages in another book on archaeology. Then I read several pages in a journal (Bookforum, The American Scholar, The Biblical Archaeological Review), and finally I read several poems in recent or ancient poetry books. Chances are that some phrase that I have come across will set me off to write a poem; but there are days when nothing is inspiring, and very few days indeed when I have written an acceptable poem. Elsewhere I have stated that about one in ten of the poems I write is acceptable.

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