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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."
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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"Use your knowledge and physical strength. You have the opportunity today, start living for Him."
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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."
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"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
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"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead."
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"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."
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"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
Television
"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
Poetry
"We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."
Poetry
"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
Living
"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."
Fact
"I do a lot of readings."
Reading
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
Creativity
"Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level."
Poetry
"I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987."
Life
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