"Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it."

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I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short, he has learnt his trade - that he should bother with literature at all. Poetry is not like surgery, a technique that can be copied. Every operation the poet performs is unique, and need never be done again.

— Philip Larkin