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"Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"Give light and people will find the way."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
Will
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
Want
"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."
Time
"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
"I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987."
Life
"The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives."
Poetry
"Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was."
People
"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."
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