"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."

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"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

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"There are very few great poets in the world."

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"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."

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"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."

History

"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."

Poetry

"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."

Writing

"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."

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"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."

Politics

"I was always influenced by language."

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"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."

Writing

"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

"The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was."

Man

"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."

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