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"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
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"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
Marriage
"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."
Emotional
"I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art."
Art
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
Nothing
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
"I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound."
Work
"I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless."
Life
"I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were."
Poetry
"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me."
Reflection
"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
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