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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."
"Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment."
"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."
"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."
"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."
"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."
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