I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
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When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
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And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
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People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
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I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
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