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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

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Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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