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Continue to ChatI know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say. - Tracy K. Smith from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-know-that-in-a-poem-even-when-the-speaker-is-speaking-from-the-poet-s-experience-there-s-always-something