![]() "Ī blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. If you like, I began as a poet when my roots were crossed with my reading." On authority" At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. The prizes can’t help you at all.” On becoming a poet: "My quest for precision and definition, while it may lead backward, is conducted in the living speech of a landscape and a language that I was born with. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks." On fame: "The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself. On his inspiration: 'The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis” On which animal he'd prefer to be: "I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. ![]() ![]() So hope for a great sea change On the far side of revenge Believe in miracles.” “The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.” ― “I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.” and five more. “History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime, The longest-for tidal wave of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.
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