I love the way form and rhythm can somehow confer a higher destiny on even the most workaday words. - Dennis O'Driscoll

I am wedded to the notion that Inspiration is the sine que non , the non negotiable prelude to writing a poem.

Seamus Heaney is no more Irish than that other poet of the local, universal and eternal , James Joyce. Both men think locally and globally.

Poetry is nothing less than an aspiration to absolute truth.