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"In any case, a sentimental, moralizing poem is not what I wa..." — Henri Cole

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In any case, a sentimental, moralizing poem is not what I want to write. I don’t want the reader to experience comfort—I want the opposite. A lyric poem presents an X-ray of the self in a moment of being, and usually this means dissonance.

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