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"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."

"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."

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"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."

"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
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