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"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally."
"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
"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."
"Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost."
"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."
"I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art."
"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
"I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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