“Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.”
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.