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Continue to ChatI don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves. - Albert Goldbarth from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-don-t-spend-time-thinking-about-an-aesthetic-out-of-which-i-create-or-an-ideal-toward-which-my-body-of-work