One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
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I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
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That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
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Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.
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The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.
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