‘But how about, for example, writing to find out about what you don’t know? Or writing as a job in itself? Shades of meaning crowd round every piece of advice I ever received. I never took anything as truth, only as something to think about. ‘
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‘I was playing. I take play very seriously. I was wrapping prose around poems, then freeing the poems.’
‘Even though I have some sympathy for the dislocation you must have felt, I want to urge you to hurry. ‘