Our creative habits are as mysterious to each other as our domestic habits. - Dennis O'Driscoll

I am completely passive about my poetry, unless I sense the rhythms, see the images and hear the words spontaneously, I am helpless.

All poets face the same task to 'follow the prompts' and satisfactorily shape the amorphous sounds, rhythms, images or phrases by which a potential poem is recognised.

Poetry is a highly visible art in Ireland ; in our rapidly secularised society, it has become a kind of erzatz religion, applying the elevated ceremonial language without the divisive doctrine.