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" The end of art is peace. "

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

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" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "

" The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them. "

" Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep. "

" 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 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. "

" Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started. "

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

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" Write whatever you like! "

" My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. "

" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "

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" Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. "

" I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself. "

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" The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it. "