There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and … - Michael Longley

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Replace the words "have to" with "get to" and watch how the cold rain on your life changes to sunshine.

Michael Longley

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.

Believe, Live, Publicity, Puff, World

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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.

America, Country, Couple, Mind, Quite, Rest

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

Accumulating, Grows, Oeuvre, Older, Sense, Suppose

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

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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Replace the words "have to" with "get to" and watch how the cold rain on your life changes to sunshine.

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Benjamin Jowett

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

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The United States was the one nullifying any attempt in the Security Council of the United Nations to sanction those fascist governments, really segregationist and racist. The same thing it is doing for Israel is what it used to do for South Africa who ended up having seven nuclear weapons. Why didn't they act against them like they did against Iraq for the so called weapons of mass destruction during Bush that never existed in the first place?

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I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.

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