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  1. I've heard my own work being denigrated as being mere pubtalk. If that's the case, I'm very happy with the comparison.
  2. Any poetry that confines itself to the merely literary is half dead. And I enjoy pubs a lot more than poetry readings - Ciaran Carson
  3. Taken on its own, in the abstract, the word ‘poetry’ is both radiant and resistant.
  4. It means so many things to so many people that it is more the signal of a value than a precisely determined lexical entity – Seamus Heaney
  5. Jaap Blonk @ the Sycamore Club next Tuesday @ 8.00pm
  6. Sooner or later even the poem I'm most proud of lies lifeless on the page before me,
  7. completely inert and without merit; and I have no idea where another will come from, or when - Anthony Hecht
  8. Dublin is a very powerful and intense and abrasive atmosphere for poets,
  9. and anyone who has lived there knows that it is as far as a poet can get from a flattering environment - Eavan Boland
  10. There's nothing like a punch in the mouth,
  11. to remind you that that poem about your next-door neighbour was not as clever as you thought - Simon Armitage
  12. I am a poetician, not a politician - Yevgeny Yevtushenko. YY is reading 5 July @ 4.30pm in Youghal. For more go to PI calendar.
  13. Most poets write and publish far too much. They forget the agricultural good sense of the fallow period.
  14. The Muse despises whingers who bellyache about “writer’s block” and related ailments – Michael Longley
  15. Anyone who begins a sentence “as a poet I” is probably not a poet. It’s like calling yourself a saint– Michael Longley
  16. It is almost as if that particular kind of patterned utterance is a mating call of some kind - Germaine Greer
  17. In all literate societies, the idea of poetry has been inextricable from the idea of love.
  18. If it isn't great poetry, it isn't poetry at all - Gilbert Adair
  19. Rock and roll and lyric poetry are closely related, or can be, in some of the very best contemporary writers – Paul Muldoon
  20. A great poet leaves behind an opus and an aura. The opus instructs; the aura inhibits - Wayne Koestenbaum