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Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'
You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.
I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
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