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"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."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
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"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."
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"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
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"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
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"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."
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"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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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
"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."
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"I do a lot of readings."
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"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
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
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