The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
Fate goes ever as fate must.
And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line.
A four foot box, a foot for every year.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
This morning from a dewy motorwayI saw the new camp for the internees:A bomb had left a crater of fresh clayIn the roadside, and over in the treesMachine-gun posts defined a real stockade.There was th...
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
My poor scapegoat,I almost love youbut would have cast, I know,the stones of silence.I am the artful voyeurof your brain's exposed and darkened combs,your muscles' webbingand all your numbered bones:I...
The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.
We were small and thought we knew nothing Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires In the shiny pouches of raindrops, Each one seeded full with the light Of the sky, the gleam of the lines,...
The dotted line my father's ashplant made
Islanders tooare for sculpting.
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
Believe that further shoreIs reachable from here.
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.