Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time