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Quote by Ted Hughes
When you sit with your pen, every year of your life is right there, wired into the communication between your brain and your writing hand.
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Writing is presented as more than a physical act. When you hold a pen, your past experience is part of the connection between thought and handwriting. Each line carries something shaped by the years you have lived, so writing becomes a meeting point between your present mind and your accumulated life.
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- The Paris Review, “Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71”
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