Walk On Air Against Your Better Judgement.

It Is Difficult At Times To Repress The Thought That History Is About As Instructive As An Abattoir.

I Have Always Thought Of Poems As Stepping Stones In One's Own Sense Of Oneself.

Suspect Too Much Sweet Talk But Never Close Your Mind.

Desmond O'grady Is One Of The Senior Figures In Irish Literary Life, Exemplary In The Way He Has Committed Himself Over The Decades To The Vocation Of Poetry And Has Lived Selflessly For The Art

Getting Started, Keeping Going, Getting Started Again - In Art And In Life, It Seems To Me This Is The Essential Rhythm Not Only Of Achievement But Of Survival, The Ground Of Convinced Action, The Basis Of Self-esteem And The Guarantee Of Credibility In Your Lives, Credibility To Yourselves As Well As To Others.