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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
- James
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself all the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020