one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of ones own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others

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  • Poetry — The art of language, rhythm, and emotional expression

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