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I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

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There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

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And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

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And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

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And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Poet

Born: November 14th, 1910

Died: January 23rd, 1996

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