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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 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 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
"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."
Emotional
"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."
Art
"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
Music
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
Nothing
"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."
Hope
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
"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
"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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