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I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

~Tony Harrison

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It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

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I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

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Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

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I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my parents might respond to.

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Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

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I hate the anglicanisation of culture, the idea that culture is genteel. It's not genteel.

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I hate everything about writing except doing it.

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The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.

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I am capable of bad taste - deliberately.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: April 30th, 1937

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