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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"I was always influenced by language."
Language
"The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it."
Language
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
Family
"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."
People
"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."
History
"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."
Writing
"I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."
Age
"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."
Family
"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."
Reading
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