Amy Clampitt Quote

One of the books I read was an old copy of Hans Christian Andersen with strange, very nineteenth-century engravings. [..] There was some kind of awful fascination about those stories; they're not cheerful, they're a glimpse into the adult world, and I think I was entranced by them for that reason.

The Paris Review, The Art of Poetry No. 45, Issue 126, Spring 1993