I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
From Seamus Heaney
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
I've been in the habit of helping people.
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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