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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream."
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"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."
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"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
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"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
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"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."
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"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
Books
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
People
"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
Poetry
"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."
Friendship
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
Film
"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."
Friendship
"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
Minimalism
"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."
Poetry
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