Anne Wright
Anne Wright
Anne Margaret Wright CBEis a British academic and academic administrator...
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.