If It Were Thought That Anything I Wrote Was Influenced By Robert Frost, I Would Take That Particular Work Of Mine, Shred It, And Flush It Down The Toilet, Hoping Not To Clog The Pipes.

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If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost,
I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down
the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes. A more sententious, holding-
forth old bore who expected every hero-worshiping adenoidal little twerp
of a student-poet to hang on to his every word I never saw.
-- James Dickey

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