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Sinclair Beiles Quotes

1930–2000 South Africa

Sinclair Beiles (b. Kampala, Uganda, 1930–2000, Johannesburg) was a South African beat poet and editor for Maurice Girodias at the Olympia Press in Paris.

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Random Sinclair Beiles quote

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I am not particularly interested in peoples’ perspectives of me, or what they think of me.

I create for my own benefit, not for others.

Like Chaucer I am both classical and spontaneous.

I have always been very interested in architecture, and particularly medieval architecture.

The first very interesting culture that I was introduced to was French.

My role is as a pure poet. I don’t do anything but poeticise.

I first became interested in writing when I felt, or rather realised, that I could write down things that I’d dreamt about.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sinclair Beiles (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.