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"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
Reading
"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
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"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
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"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
People
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
Job
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."
Age
"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."
Books
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Poetry
"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love
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