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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers
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Crystallisation
Telling people how to write poetry is a bit like frolicking through a minefield; spontaneity is the order of the day, but one false step and a dozen certainties will blow up in your face. Setting oneself up as a know-all is dangerous, so I have decided to side-step the whole issue by saying that, for someone just beginning to write, no advice can be a substitute for abundant reading, extensive writing, and the freeing of the imagination and spirit in whatever way seems fruitful, barring total anarchy. Some people need their life to be reasonably secure before a poem will come; others can write their way out of misery. Some write to a timetable; others wait for some moment of crystallisation, a brainwave or slow dawning. All are right, providing they are not echoing some prescriptive score. And it's this finding of a tune which is important, hearing the still small voice inside yourself, and feeding it, and watering it, and letting it out for air from time to time; one day it'll be old enough to take care of itself.
According to the text, what are effective ways to cultivate one's poetry writing skills?
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