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" I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis. "

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" Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system. "

" I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. "

" I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. "

" I believe we are put here to improve civilisation. "

" I spend almost every morning with mail. "

" At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. "

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

" Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye. "

" I'm a firm believer in learning by heart. "

" Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself. "

" Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. "

" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "

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

" There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. "

" The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. "

" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "

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

" I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political. "

" Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. "

" The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. "

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

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

" Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. "

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

" The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. "

" If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries. "

" 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. "

" I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. "

" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "