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"No, the public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason." —Billy Collins
"When I was a younger poet I would do what Frost said you can't do, which is fret a poem into being ... and I gave up on that a long time ago. If a poem isn't working, if it doesn't feel right, I just let it go and get on with the next thing, which could be writing another poem or making more toast.
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