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‘The creation of a poem is the creation of an object which is entirely separate from its creator.

The poet often feels as if he is not really responsible for his work, not only because so much of it happens without any conscious cleverness on his part, but also because poetry is almost the least personal of any kind of statement.’*

*[Ibid, 33]

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