On Revising

“‘Much as I loathe the typewriter,’ W.H. Auden wrote, ‘I must admit that it is a help in self-criticism. Typescript is so impersonal and hideous to look at that, if I type out a poem, I immediately see defects which I missed when I looked through it in manuscript.’”

Craig Fehrman, "Revising Your Writing Again? Blame the Modernists" - http://b.globe.com/14I3NTd