- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry stands or falls by its music.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to have quiet time and isolation.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020