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‘Of course, this* is all only one aspect of the business of making poems. It is important, however, in that it shows one way in which the making of poetry differs from other kinds of writing. This is not to suggest that the novelist or playwright does not experience Inspiration in the same way, but to suggest that, whereas ** novels and plays do get written without the writer experiencing any “poetic trance”, there are hardly any poems that are made without some clearly definable form of subconscious assistance.’***

*[See last three previous entries, [Redbook7:145][19900613:0840h]{Poetry (Extracts) [continued (8)]}[13th June 1990]ff]

**(ie ‘some’ or ‘many’, presumably)

***Ibid, 15-17

{What, even now?}

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