- Oh, satisfaction! I don't think I could live without it. It's like water or bread, or something absolutely essential to me. I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly from having been a poet to becoming a poet in rest. I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one.
- I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have . . . I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrific, like madness, being tortured, [that] one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and an intelligent mind.
- Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline--you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.
- I much prefer doctors, midwives, lawyers, anything but writers. I think writers and artists are the most narcissistic people.
- Every woman adores a fascist.
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