I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

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• Tony Harrison:

  A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

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  A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro o

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  I need to look back on my poetic ventures, make sense of them as a whole, and move forward... and t

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  Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, t

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  I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. Y

• Tony Harrison:

  You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first c

• Tony Harrison:

  I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only underst

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  Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera h

• Tony Harrison:

  It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.

• Tony Harrison:

  Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fir