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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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a...

Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

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

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

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