When a poet is being a poet - that is, when he is writing or thinking about writing - he cannot be concerned with anything but the making of a poem. (Richard Wilbur)

When a poet is being a poet - that is, when he is writing or thinking about writing - he cannot be concerned with anything but the making of a poem.

Richard Wilbur

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