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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 productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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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 science, it is an aid to art.
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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 don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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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 without order or pattern poetry is useless.
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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 emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
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I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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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 had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
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