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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...

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.

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...

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that...

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that...

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...