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Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

Richard Hugo
Writing, Ought, Written
Richard Hugo (1992). “The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.