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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
People
"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
Reading
"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
Poet
"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
Reading
"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
People
"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
Poetry
"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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