When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which...

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which...

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of...

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of...

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of...

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of...

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within...

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within...

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb...

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb...

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the...

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the...

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the...

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the...

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make...

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make...