"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."

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"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."

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"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."

Poetry

"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"

Love

"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."

Art

"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason."

Love

"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."

People

"However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird."

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

"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."

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"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."

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"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