Anne Wright
Anne Wright
Anne Margaret Wright CBEis a British academic and academic administrator...
exciting felt high leading school sort
He sort of had a survivor's guilt, ... All of his high school friends were still in Martins Ferry and not leading the most exciting lives. And he got out, and, I think, always felt guilty.
loved
He loved this country, ... But he despaired for it.
appealed
It was peaceful, ... It was very different than anything he knew. I think that appealed to him.
poet poetry teach wrote
He said, 'I can't teach someone how to write,' ... He just thought if you were a poet, you wrote poetry.
astonished considered himself major minor won
I think he was astonished he won it, ... I wasn't, of course. He considered himself a minor poet, not a major poet.
ability amendment commission dissent encourage free legitimate rights weigh
I would encourage the commission to weigh heavily the First Amendment rights that we have, because that's really the fundamental thing: free speech, the ability to protest, legitimate dissent in a democracy.
asked poets
Someone once asked him, 'How many poets do you know there?' ... He said, 'Thank God, none.'
certainly learn people poem
From the letters, people would certainly learn more about how a poem is made, ... They may learn more about iambic pentameter than they ever wished.
people wrote
was very compassionate. He wrote a lot about people down on their luck.
cindy doubt finish
There is no doubt about this with Cindy -- she started the movement, she'll finish the movement.