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Michael Longley

"In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale."

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

Michael Longley

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“Being committed or loyal to someone doesnâ€™t mean you wonâ€™t ever be attracted to someone else. It means you wonâ€™t physically act upon the attraction.”
“Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.”
“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.”
“I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
“Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.”

Source : Doreen Virtue, Grant Virtue (2010). “Angel Words: Visual Evidence of How Words Can Be Angels in Your Life”, p.69, Hay House, Inc
“It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons...I warn the House of Lords of the consequences...it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.”

Source : James Callaghan's speech on economic policy in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 9, 1976.
“He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.”

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