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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.
- Influences
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're young, influences count.
- Fairness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
- Caribbean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020