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My passport's green.
The end of art is peace.
Write whatever you like!
I shall gain glory or die.
Poetry is language in orbit.
The next move is always the test.
All I know is a door into the dark
If self is a location, so is love.
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
I drink to keep body and soul apart.
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
I spend almost every morning with mail.
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
Im a firm believer in learning by heart.
One doesn't want one's identity coerced.
I've been in the habit of helping people.
I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.
Walk on air against your better judgement.
Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...
My body was braille for the creeping influences.
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'
Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.
I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.
Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.
I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.