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Dennis O'Driscoll
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“If poets spoke their poetry , they would not need to write it.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The priority for the poet must be his poetry, the poetry must determine his agenda and deadlines”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writers are not neccessarily articulate simply because poetry is their stock-in-trade.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction -'Stepping Stones' interviews with Seamus Heaney Faber & Faber 2009
“I am completely passive about my poetry, unless I sense the rhythms, see the images and hear the words spontaneously, I am helpless.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Usually what is termed 'Inspiration' means the ingredients are garnered for you and you must concoct a suitable recipe.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I put all my poetry in long hand, try to let the idea marinate as long as possible, clinging to the commonplace notion of a creative connection between the movement of the hand and the flow of imagination.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no one way 'correct' way of becoming a writer. The very quirks and eccentricities which a workshop will probably discourage may in fact be the aspiring writer's most valuable capital in the longer term. Would be literary Samsons should be wary of enrolling in a hairdressing school.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know I am in the grip of a true poem when I can hardly bear to read it calmly at first.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Interview, Mark Thwaite, 12th August 2005, 'Ready Steady Books for literature'”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our creative habits are as mysterious to each other as our domestic habits.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All poets face the same task to 'follow the prompts' and satisfactorily shape the amorphous sounds, rhythms, images or phrases by which a potential poem is recognised.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am wedded to the notion that Inspiration is the sine que non , the non negotiable prelude to writing a poem.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rhythm of poetry and the routine of work are interdependent for some poets”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Sing for the Taxman-Poetry Magazine-Poetry Foundation May 1 2009
“What we call inspiration in poetry is usually a visitation of words and rhythms rather than ideas.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would say that poetry for most people is like the Christmas tree that is kept in the attic and is taken down in its appropriate season.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sheer power of a great poem is enough to guarantee that it will ultimately make itself felt ,if the reader is in a receptive mood.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview Michael Garvey @Irish Literary Supplement' Fall 1998
“I am very driven when it comes to poetry, a complete obsessive of the truth be told.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the way form and rhythm can somehow confer a higher destiny on even the most workaday words.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Genuine poetry reminds us how little we truly know, it is a vehicle for discovery, not a conduit for omniscience.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by email with Elizabeth MacDonald 2004, published 'Poetry Ireland Review'
“Poetry is most convincing when its elements have been lived.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Language is at the heart of poetry and it is difficult to commandeer words which elicit no personal echo . Of what we can speak, we need not be silent.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Eugene O'Connell 'Cork Literary Review vol xiii 2009
“Everybody has certain preoccupations they return to.What looks like an obsession, is often something more modest, namely a return to the fray through a somewhat different angle of vision..from a different stage of your experience.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When human beings banish God from the world, they make Gods of themselves.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is nothing less than an aspiration to absolute truth.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Kieran Owens ' The Event Guide' December 2002
“A defining mark of poetry is that it defies definition.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction - ' The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations' ed. Dennis O'Driscoll 2006
“There is a democratic but deluded post-modern fantasy whereby everybody is demed an artist.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is a highly visible art in Ireland ; in our rapidly secularised society, it has become a kind of erzatz religion, applying the elevated ceremonial language without the divisive doctrine.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“However much poetry may be respected in Ireland , this respect more often translates , in practice, into tolerance and acceptance, rather than support. Poetry is a 'nice' thing to live with , as long as it does not come too close.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even the Revenue is better loved by the twenty first century Irish natives than were the English colonists who ruled from Dublin Castle in earlier centuries.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Sing for the Taxman' -Poetry Magazine-Poetry Foundation May 1 2009
“Seamus Heaney is no more Irish than that other poet of the local, universal and eternal , James Joyce. Both men think locally and globally.”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book Depository interview with Mark Thwaite 2009
“(inc interviews and examples of poetry)”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Full interview with Mark Thwaite 2005”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Memoir- 'Sing for the Taxman' May 1 2009”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Breviary example of O'Driscoll ' brief poems”
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source