Anne Wright
Anne Wright
Anne Margaret Wright CBEis a British academic and academic administrator...
asked poets
Someone once asked him, 'How many poets do you know there?' ... He said, 'Thank God, none.'
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.
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.