In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving … - Michael Longley

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What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

Michael Longley

In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.

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I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.

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I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

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