"In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough."

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When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing a poem to cleaning an old piece of slate until the letters appear. The only way you could reveal your god is perhaps under hypnosis. It’s sacred and it’s secret, even to the writer.

— Martin Amis