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And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

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I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. "

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The birds are silent in the woods.
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