Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
— William Faulkner.
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Ada Limón, from “Sometimes I Think My Body Leaves a Shape in the Air”, The Carrying: Poems
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Taylor Swift, I hate it here
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~ Margaret Atwood, from "Variation on the World Sleep"
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Safia Elhillo from “Geneva”, Girls That Never Die: Poems
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