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Human
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Nov 07, 2020

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

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.

Quite
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Nov 07, 2020

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

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.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

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.

Nov 07, 2020

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

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.

Ignore
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Nov 07, 2020

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

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.

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