“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”
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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
