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The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

Robert Graves
Writing, Mean, Way
Robert Graves, Paul O'Prey (1995). “Collected writings on poetry”, Carcanet Pr
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.