"A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder."

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How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

— Ned Vizzini