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Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

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For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

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I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

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Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

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