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  • An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire†permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

    - Diane Ackerman
    Quoted in the NewYork Times,10 Mar1991.

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