When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.

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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

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I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

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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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I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

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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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