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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
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"Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence."
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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."
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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
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"If you can not master your language you must be it's slave."
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"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."
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"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
Attention
"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."
Help
"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."
Writing
"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."
Poetry
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
Poems
"Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
Energy
"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
Creativity
"I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer."
Literature
"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."
Woman
"Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other."
Poetry
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