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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."
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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
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"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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"I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something."
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"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
Living
"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
"Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read."
People
"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
"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 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."
Being
"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
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
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