Read good poetry and read it well, tracing the countless incarnations of every word. These are after all the same words lying dead in dictionaries or… - Wisława Szymborska

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Read good poetry and read it well, tracing the countless incarnations of every word. These are after all the same words lying dead in dictionaries or leading a gray life in speech. Then why do they shine like new in poems, as if the poet had just discovered them?