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He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really – to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn’t very encouraging because, well, they weren’t getting far were they?

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

A poet’s hope is to write well, and the poet’s art is writing the truth.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

For the last few years, I’ve been feeling like everything is part of a poem, but it’s not finished yet.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.