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"I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy."
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"If you can say it... it's obvious."

"If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt."

"As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws."

"Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred, agree to be bright!"

"If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance."

"You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life."
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"Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was."

"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."

"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."

"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."

"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."

"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."

"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."
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