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“When I write a poem, I don’t know quite what it means. If I think I know what it means, I’ve got a bad poem. I want a poem to be beyond me. I want it to be something that transfers a feeling I don’t quite understand the limits of.”

Louis Simpson

Posted on March 27, 2010March 27, 2010Author cwq

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