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But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

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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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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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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

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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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I don't think of myself all the time.

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I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.

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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Poet

Born: November 14th, 1910

Died: January 23rd, 1996

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