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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

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

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One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

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I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

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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.

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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

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The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: April 13th, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2013

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