Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
Writing is an undertaking for the modest.