I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call … - Michael Longley

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True disciples of Jesus Christ have always been concerned for the one. Jesus Christ is our greatest example. He was surrounded by multitudes and spoke to thousands, yet He always had concern for the one.

Michael Longley

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

Archipelago, Art, Arts, Call, Firsts, Might

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There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching.

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I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Concern, Happen, Human, Normal, People

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 don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble of emotions and vague notions and scraps of knowledge. At some stage a form or, rather, a shape mysteriously emerges.

Emerges, Emotion, Emotions, Know, Shapes, Writing

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