- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
- Complexities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
- Painter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
- Meditation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
- Strict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing in a strict form can surprise you.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
- Pop
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- Nov 07, 2020