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• Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
• But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
• But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem…
• But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
• Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite…
• I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards…
• I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
• I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing,…
• I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of…
• I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
• I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I…
• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were.…

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