ask a twenty-one-year-old poet poetry likes, say, unblushing, “Nobody’ — Annie Dillard, Writing Life

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If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.

Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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