And poets themselves are extremely reticent. I often compare them to woodworkers in this: few will talk to you about theory of woodworking. They'd find such talk useless. But you can pick up an awful lot of theory and ideas if you listen closely while they're working over a newly crafted cabinet.
That's good, Bill. I have sometimes had the suspicion that poets were deliberately concealing hard-won secrets of their craft even when pretending to teach and critique. But it's really just a temporary mismatch of what's on your mind with what's on mine, right?
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