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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family.

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"I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless"

- Anne Stevenson

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