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A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without.

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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

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Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

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Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

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The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

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Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

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