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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a poem on the abdication of King Charles III or about the sex life of the Royals... anybody who knew my work would know I'm not a contender.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought - that's the great danger. Every time we create a god, we diminish humanity.
- Ceremony
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to look back on my poetic ventures, make sense of them as a whole, and move forward... and to experiment without external demands.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I want to have honours loaded on me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and renew yourself.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.
- Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020