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"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."
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