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      <image:caption>“Whether one writes a piece of work well or not seems to me a matter of crystallization—the good sentence, the good word, is only the final stage in the process…it seems to me just the same in poetry—the words come easily enough, in comparison to the core of it—the tone—and nobody can help one in the least with that.”</image:caption>
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