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If you are a poet, this quote means that you need to be completely and utterly lost in your work. You can’t write poetry if your mind is still thinking about the things that went into creating your masterpiece. This is because poetry is about emotion and not logic. When we write poetry, we don’t consider what we do as writing poetry; we consider it as the real thing, as the truth itself. When we write poetry, we lose ourselves in our work.
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