- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
- Original
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
- Firm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
- Oratory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020