Dennis O'Driscoll: Word

Dennis O'Driscoll was Irish poet, critic. Explore interesting quotes on word.

Dennis O'Driscoll: 60 quotes2 likes

“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

Interview with Eugene O'Connell 'Cork Literary Review vol xiii 2009
Poetry Quotes

“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

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“What we call inspiration in poetry is usually a visitation of words and rhythms rather than ideas.”

Dennis O'Driscoll

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“I love the way form and rhythm can somehow confer a higher destiny on even the most workaday words.”

Dennis O'Driscoll

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