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Michael Longley quotes: I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

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

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

Michael Longley quotes: I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

Michael Longley quotes: I hardly ever look at my published books.

I hardly ever look at my published books.

Michael Longley quotes: Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

Michael Longley quotes: The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

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

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

Michael Longley quotes: A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.

A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.

Michael Longley quotes: Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting."

Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting."

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

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