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I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

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I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

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I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

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I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

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I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

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It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

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Many of my poems are not sexual.

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My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: August 29th, 1929

Died: April 25th, 2004

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