Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.