" And the only means of conversion is dogged imitation, which is always deficient and never works and can go on indefinitely, because we so need to fend off the implicit judgment. And we work always facing the monument, so as to re-create it perfectly. But the monument remains the monument. Or the obstacle. And the poems we write in this state are the dead products of fear and inhibition; they have no author at all. "

― Louise Glück , Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry