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I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

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However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

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I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

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It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Poet

Born: November 14th, 1910

Died: January 23rd, 1996

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