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"But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving."
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"And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written."
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"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."
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