I just didn't want to shoot other people.
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
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.
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
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