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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
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"Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose."
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"The words of the true poems give you more than poems, they give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, & everything else, they balance the ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes, they do not seek beauty, they are sought, forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick. They prepare for death, yet they are not the finish, but rather the outset, they bring none of his or her terminus or to be content & full, whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of the stars, to learn one of the meanings, to launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings & never be quiet again."
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"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
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"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
"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
"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."
Will
"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
"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."
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"The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives."
Poetry
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
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