I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
Andrew Bird
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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. -
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. -
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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. -
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