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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
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.
— Michael Longley
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
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— Barbara Longley
Hell-bent on extinguishing
— Barbara Longley
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.
— Edna Longley
Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.
— Noel Coward
If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.
— Gillian Flynn
Zoe's face tilted up toward his presented a temptation he could no more resist than he could prevent the sun from rising.
— Barbara Longley
The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
— Jourdan Dunn
Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting."
— Michael Longley
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
— Alexander Woollcott
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
— Vladimir Lenin
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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
I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.
— Michael Longley
I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.
— Michael Longley
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— Barbara Longley
Only you can tip the scale,
— Barbara Longley
Nora: What are you planning?Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock. — Becca Fitzpatrick
I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.
— Dale Archer
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
— Michael Longley
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
— Michael Longley
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
— Edna Longley
I hardly ever look at my published books.
— Michael Longley
Brief flings and the companionship of a professional are no match for the love and trust between a husband and wife.
— Barbara Longley
He plundered her mouth with his tongue, inciting a rush of desire.
— Barbara Longley
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— Barbara Longley