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Category: poetry
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what’s going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda’s poetry. I don’t actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don’t know why, but it … Read more
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it.
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.