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• ‟ I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

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• ‟ It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

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• ‟ The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.

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• ‟ The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

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• ‟ A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

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• ‟ Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

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• ‟ Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

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