“Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.”
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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.