Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

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.

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

All I know is a door into the dark