- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
- Absolutely Not
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
- Nov 07, 2020
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
- Flatten
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
- Harshness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
- Enchanted
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020