Richard Hugo, in
The Triggering Town, wrote:
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Originally Posted by Richard Hugo
You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second.
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I mostly agree with this. Even when I am only working on one poem, I am most likely working on several. What is most important -- which is the actual point Hugo is trying to make in the section from which I clipped the quote -- is that you are writing something. Anything. Which is shockingly easier said than done.
David R.