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I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.

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Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

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Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

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There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work. I try to soak my work in my sense of futility and fury.

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The imagination has its limits, and you have to face up to that.

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I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

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I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.

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I like a direct relationship between actor and audience.

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I'm hoping to have a ninth decade like Matisse's.

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You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: April 30th, 1937

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