Stanley KunitzYou must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
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You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin because if you do, it will no longer be a poem. The “wild origin” of a poem is the part that tells us the poem came from the heart, not from a book or a teacher. In order to have a poem, we must have its wild origin.
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