“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”

“They think I’m old-fashioned? Is being against racism and hatred old-fashioned? OK, I’m old-fashioned.”

“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”

“Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.”

“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”

“He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it.”

“poetry needed no renascence. It was not young, it is not old.”

“Asking poetry to fulfil a (merely) political function would be a mistake. This tends to lead us to poetry that, however cleverly or inventively, can do no better than denounce the apparently evil and/or praise the good. Worse, we get something that is very much in fashion right now: the fetishisation and weaponisation of our own pain.…”

“Old questions are not answered—they only go out of fashion.”