Michael Longley Quotes

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Astrologers or three wise men
Who may shortly be setting out
For a small house up the Shankill
Or the Falls, should pause on their way
To buy gifts at Jim Gibson's shop,
Dates and chestnuts and tambourines.

Michael Longley

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Michael Longley

I am travelling from one April to another.
It is the same train between the same embankments.
Gorse fires are smoking, but primroses burn
And celandines and white may and gorse flowers.

Michael Longley

Michael Longley

Michael Longley

Born: July 27, 1939

Died: January 22, 2025 (aged 85)

Bio: Michael Longley was a poet from Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Known for:

The Stairwell (2014)
Gorse fires (1991)
A Hundred Doors (2011)
The weather in Japan (2000)
The ghost orchid (1995)

Michael Longley on Wikipedia

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