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I Taught Myself Russian, Which Was Very, Very Useful, Especially For Poetry And In Fact If You Can't Read Pushkin In Russian, You're Really Missing Something.

Writers Quite Often Starve. And I'm Mainly Just Writing Critical Prose And Poetry, That's A Formula For Starvation.

The Great Thing About Living Until You Get A Bit Older If You Are A Writer, And Especially A Poet, Is That You Have More Life To Reflect On. And I Think That If I Am Better Now - And I Think That I Am Probably Better Than I Was - Is Because That I Simply Have More To Think About, More To Get Under Control, More To Understand.

A Traditional Fixture At Wimbledon Is The Way The Bbc Tv Commentary Box Fills Up With British Players Eliminated In The Early Rounds.

Jack Aubrey Is A Tremendous Tower Of Strength And You Always Want To Read About Him.