"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

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"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."

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"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."

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"I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me."

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"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."

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"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."

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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."

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"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."

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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."

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