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There are some things you only learn through experience.
Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.
For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.
