"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."

"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."

"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."

"It is a essential truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul."

"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others."

"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."

"There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves."