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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

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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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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

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When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

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Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

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And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

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People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

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However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

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And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

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I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

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