"I revise very little. I always write in long hand and revise when I type. I test them out when I read them aloud."

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“English Prosody has tended to be a subject for cranks.”

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“You can teach the writing of verse..like prose..an instrument..and the recognition of true poetry. The rest, writers must teach themselves.”

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