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" Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. "

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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. "

" You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. "

" It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme. "

" One doesn't want one's identity coerced. "

" As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does. "

" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "

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" The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world. "

" I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment. "

" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "

" To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there. "

" My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God. "

" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "

" A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious. "

" Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. "

" I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression. "

" In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example. "

" I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you. "

" You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality. "

" I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing. "

" My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland. "

" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "

" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "

" Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. "