And also I'm not good at inventing things. And also I'm not good at inventing things. I couldn't invent a plot. I couldn't invent a character.
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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.Norman MacCaig
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.
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I don't think of myself all the time.
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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 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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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
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