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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a... →
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy... →
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully... →
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that... →
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real... →
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as... →
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am... →
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