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"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
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"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"
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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
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"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
Poetry
"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
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
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"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
Help
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
Conversation
"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."
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"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
"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
Reading
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