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• The sea is as near as we come to another world.
• Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
• A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
• Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
• You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases…
• I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I…
• I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
• I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
• Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 -…
• Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in…
• Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as…

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