from A CERTAIN WILDNESS (1968)

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"You can't teach anybody how to write," he said: "They've hired me to come here and be a kind of Influence Squirter. You'll have to do the work, you'll have to work it out for yourself. Say what you want to say, what you think, and I'll listen. Then I'll say what I think, and after that we'll wait to see who's right. . ."

- Joseph Moncure March, reminiscing about studying with Robert Frost