[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Writing Poetry, It's Your Own Fault
Rilka said, only write poetry if you must write i if you can't not. Rit no names, no pacto, i ithink you had that in your letter to a young poet as well. I know, nothing more exciting than writing a poem. And all that ten years i half hoped that i would write another poem. And i did try, but they were all fixYou know, if you have quite a lot of technique, which now, after sixty years scribbling, i have, it's too easy to produce forgeries. There are books upon books full of forgeries. So it's, i do believe that enough you don't have in to
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