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The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

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Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

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The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it.

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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

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If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries.

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To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

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I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: April 13th, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2013

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