“I have no idea whether it is any good or not.”

A strikingly self-effacing comment about a poem that later became famous · Letter to his parents

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“It was written in about twenty minutes.”

Suggesting the suddenness and immediacy of creative inspiration · Letter to his parents

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• Time

“It is called High Flight and was inspired by a flight I made a few days ago.”

Connecting poetic inspiration directly with the experience of flying · Letter to his parents

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• Nature

“I thought you might be interested in this poem I wrote the other day.”

A modest introduction to the work that became his best-known poem · Letter to his parents

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