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If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

Donald Hall
Writing, Goal, Trying
Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.155, University of Michigan Press
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.