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‘This may seem a curious analogy, but a part of almost every poem is made by relaxing the mind and allowing the subconscious to do the work. The subconscious had been trained to provide words in patterns,* and to make a good many judgements. A poet who had got himself in difficulties with his poem will often simply lean back in his chair and let his mind relax in the hope that the word or image he needs will occur to him. It very often does.**

*(I started to write ‘poems’ instead of ‘patterns’.)

**[Ibid, 15-[?]17]

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