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I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

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I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

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For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.

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A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

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It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.

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'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

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Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

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I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992.

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Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.'

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I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: April 30th, 1937

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