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1 " I had hardly begun to readI asked how can you ever be surethat what you write is reallyany good at all and he said you can'tyou can't you can never be sureyou die without knowingwhether anything you wrote was any goodif you have to be sure don't write— W.S. Merwin, from “Berryman,” Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (Copper Canyon Press; English Language edition October 1, 1996) "
― W.S. Merwin , Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977-1983
