Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
タグ: poetry, you, family, good

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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
タグ: poetry, motion, hearts, emotion
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
タグ: above, poet, admire, others
I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
タグ: back, things, treasure, time
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
タグ: admire, others, people, me
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.
タグ: he, own, things, better
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