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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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"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"
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"Keep hoping until hope dies; remember, however, that hope never dies! Just take good steps with faith and hope!"
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"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
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"I love the moments i lost a little faith, spirit would always remind me; it was just a bad day."
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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."
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"Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,Come from fathers long gone by.Bring blue from a distance eye.Lords of water, earth, and fire,Lords of wind and snow and rain,Give to my heart's desire.Life as all life comes with pain,But blue will come to us again."
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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."
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"In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure."
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"I stopped remembering the past and started visualising my future, the only thing left I could hold onto was hope; that the courage I have found along the way, is what will see me through."
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"Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful."
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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."
Work
"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
Poems
"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."
Life
"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
Now
"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."
Time
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
Nothing
"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
Music
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
"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
"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties."
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