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“I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.”

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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

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These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

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I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I…

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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

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When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in…

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If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived…

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I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

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I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry…

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Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

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Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be…

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous…

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