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The sea is as near as we come to another world.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
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You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases…
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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I…
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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
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I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 -…
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Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in…
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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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My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy.…
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I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter…
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so…
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I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I…
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The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I…
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I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild…
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
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There are 82 letters in here, and they're all addressed to you. I wrote them all this summer, one a day, but…
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I didn't write these books specifically for the young-adult audience. I wrote them for me. I don't know why they span the…
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