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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
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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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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense…
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Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
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Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.
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The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly,…
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most…
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Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly…
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No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing…
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful
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Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth…
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Learn, brethren, before it be too late, that ‘without Christ you can do nothing:’ that ‘all your fresh springs are in him:’…
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Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with…
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The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education,…
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems,…
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I work only with lost and founds.
— Clarice Lispector
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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
— Seamus Heaney
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