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• ‟ In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

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• ‟ The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

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• ‟ Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

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• ‟ Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

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• ‟ Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

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• ‟ If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

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

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• ‟ Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

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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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• ‟ Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

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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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• ‟ A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

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• ‟ In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

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

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