"In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing."

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I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible sources for poetry. One is dreams, and the other is childhood. I think childhood is an inexhaustible source of your becoming who you will be and certain deep feelings are set inside of you.

— Edward Hirsch