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Unread 12-17-2017, 09:56 AM
Susan McLean Susan McLean is offline
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False dichotomies make memorable epigrams, but seldom correspond to the complexities of reality. I don't know any good poets who are irrational. It is hard to write poetry well without the help of reason, and though many poets have had periods of mental illness, they have not usually produced good poetry in those periods.

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