Writers are not neccessarily articulate simply because poetry is their stock-in-trade. - Dennis O'Driscoll

The rhythm of poetry and the routine of work are interdependent for some poets

I put all my poetry in long hand, try to let the idea marinate as long as possible, clinging to the commonplace notion of a creative connection between the movement of the hand and the flow of imagination.

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