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"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally."
Reflection
"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
Now
"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
"Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost."
Literature
"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
"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."
Music
"When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good."
Nothing
"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."
Hope
"There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic."
Criticism
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"Never allow anyone to break your bond of love."
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"Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy."
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"Silence is the song of eternity, it is the expression of eternal beauty."
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"Let us hug heart to heart in love!"
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"For happiness, love is your only choice."
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"Only when you follow your heart, can you find holy happiness."
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"May you have a joyful and grateful spirit."
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"May your turn your pain into prayer."
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"Of all the gifts, love is the greatest gift."
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"My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to."
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