"There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act."

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When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

— Matsuo Basho