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I Never Think About Poetry Except When I'm Writing It. I Mean My Poetry.

A Terrible Thing About Getting Oldish Is That Your Friends Start Dying, And In The Last Ten Years I Have Lost Seven Or Eight Of My Closest.

But You'd Have A Job To Find Many Of My Poems Which Would Seem To Be Very Influenced By A Particular Person.

It's Like Breathing In And Out To Me. It's Like Having A Conversation With Someone Who Isn't There. Because It Has To Be Addressed To Somebody - Not A Particular Person, Or Very Rarely.

People Haven't Got The Interest In Long Long Works These Days. A Lack Of Interest Which I Share.