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Quote by Dorothy Livesay
I found it impossible to write in the stanza form.
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The speaker says that writing in a stanza-based structure felt impossible for them. In other words, they could not express their ideas using that particular arrangement of lines and sections. The statement presents a clear difficulty with form, without explaining what caused it.
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- Canadian Poetry: An Interview with Dorothy Livesay
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