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

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"I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were."

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

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"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."

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"I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them."

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"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."

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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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"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."

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