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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Guitar
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Nov 07, 2020

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Live
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Nov 07, 2020

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Joy
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Nov 07, 2020

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

Nov 07, 2020

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

Nov 07, 2020

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

Heroes
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Nov 07, 2020

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

Nov 07, 2020

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Nov 07, 2020

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Emotional Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Nov 07, 2020

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Nov 07, 2020

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

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