A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. -
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. -
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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. -
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
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