- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.
- Nov 07, 2020
These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
- Admire
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020