"Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression."

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Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

Edna Longley

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“If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!”
“You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.”
“I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.”
“There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.”
“The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.”

Source : "Judge Bars 'Intelligent Design' From Pa. Classes" by Laurie Goodstein, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 2005.
“Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it.”
“There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.”
“Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake.”

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