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Writing Fixes Memory Permanently
- Describing your own experience creates a permanent substitute memory record in your mind.
- Writing inaccurately traps you as the description overtakes the original memory.
Poetry as Thought in Action
- Poetry often expresses direct experience and functions as an act of thought itself.
- The poem's form is supplied by the mind's immediate perception, alive in the moment.
French Poets Inspired Early Writing
- French poets deeply influenced Hell as a teenager more than modernist contemporaries like William Carlos Williams.
- Williams inspired Hell by seeming easy to emulate, boosting his confidence as a young writer.