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“What is hard to endure—the peculiar and haunting sense that one is about to write a poem, and then have no poem come; or be interrupted by trivia, by fools, by sense.”

“It’s almost guaranteed that if you’re imitating somebody else, it will be less good—which is not to say that you shouldn’t experiment by imitating others, but that these experiments should be confined to your notebook.”