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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as

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"Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost"

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