- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
- Nov 07, 2020
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020