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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
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"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
Marriage
"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
Now
"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me."
Reflection
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
Nothing
"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."
Emotional
"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."
Poetry
"I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound."
Work
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."
Time
"I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless."
Life
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