I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.
Michael LongleyThe job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.
Michael LongleyFor me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.
Michael Longley