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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
According to Seaton, she discover know the truth until she was in her late thirties, which is exactly when she came out. Before that, she seems to have believed she was straight, and of being opened up to sexuality itself in her late thirties by a man. She talks about discovering her true sexuality after that, relatively late in life.
It sounds as though she was truthful before, just unaware of her real orientation.
She might even agree with you that she wasn't a fully formed poet until she knew herself as a person, given what she's written about the changes in her work.
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Yeah, I'm not doubting that, nor that people change, what I am saying is that writers and poets must look into themselves and know themselves to produce anything worthwhile. She was fooling herself or had not truly looked before is what it sounds like to me. In fact maybe even that she was fooling herself consciously or unconsciously. In any case I will check out more of her work. Thanks for bringing this up.
I also think I'm have more of a reaction to this myself due to my own recent revelations in my approach to writing which I've written about in another thread.