I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
From Seamus Heaney
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
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