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One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read liked getting their information in rhyme just as much as in prose. The genre that we would think of as nonfiction often was written in verse in forms like the Georgic when people thought that one of the tasks of poetry was conveying arguments and information in a pleasant way.

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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

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Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

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The birds are silent in the woods.
Just wait: soon enough
You will be quiet too

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