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Michael Longley Quotes: A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.
         

A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.


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I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.



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Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.



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For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.



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I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.



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I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.





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