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The unseen

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone somewhere will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.

— "An Introduction to English Poetry", James Fenton

Posted by sniffles at April 20, 2006 10:33 PM