What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

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Strength,

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Harold Bloom

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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

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That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

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