“I would say that poetry for most people is like the Christmas tree that is kept in the attic and is taken down in its appropriate season.”

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Dennis O'Driscoll 30
Irish poet, critic 1954–2012

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“This is the dream we had, asleep in our chair, thinking of Christmas in the lands of fir tree and pine, Christmas in lands of palm tree and vine, and of how the one great sky does for all places and all people.”

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