"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."

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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."

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"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me."

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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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"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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"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 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."

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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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