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"The root system supports the branches."

"On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!"
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"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."

"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."

"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."

"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."

"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."
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