Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
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