Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
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I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
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