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Michael Longley Quotes

1939–2025 Ireland

Michael Longley CBE (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was an Irish poet born in Belfast.

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What good poetry and good prose have in common is vitality of rhythm .

By definition , if prose is a river, poetry is a fountain.

Poetry's only crucial attribute is rhythm. This is its heartbeat.This makes it memorable. If the rhythm falters , then the poem dies of heart failure.

If I knew where poems come from . I'd go there.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Longley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.