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…balancing The Wish To Be Lost With The Need To Be Found.
-Billy Collins
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…balancing The Wish To Be Lost With
Billy Collins
…balancing The Wish To Be Lost With The Need To Be Found.
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To Write Poetry Is To Be Very Alone, But You Always Have The Company Of Your Influences. But You Also Have The Company Of The Form Itself, Which Has A Kind Of Consciousness. I Mean, The Sonnet Will Simply Tell You, That's Too Many Syllables Or That's Too Many Lines Or That's The Wrong Place. So, Instead Of Being Alone, You're In Dialogue With The Form.
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