"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."

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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."

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"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."

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"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."

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"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."

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"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."

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"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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"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."

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"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."

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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."

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"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."

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"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."

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