Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.