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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
Okay, maybe she wasn't insane.Maybe he was — Kristen Ashley
Enjoy it while it lasts.
— Famke Janssen
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
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I hardly ever look at my published books.
— Michael Longley
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
— Michael Longley
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
— Michael Longley
PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.
— Romeo Dallaire
I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.
— Michael Longley
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
Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting."
— Michael Longley
