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"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."
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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."
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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Your past does not define you, your present does."
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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."
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"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
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"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."
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"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
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"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."
History
"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."
Poetry
"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."
Writing
"The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it."
Language
"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."
Politics
"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."
Reading
"The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was."
Man
"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
Books
"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."
Past
"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."
Hope
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