Cuaderno de lecturas: Contemporary Irish Poetry

"I take a rather common-sense view of poetry. I think that the poet is a sensitive instrument designed to record any which interests his mind or affects his emotions. If a gasometer, for instance, affects his emotions, or if the Marxian dialectic, let us say, interests his mind, then let them come into his poetry. He will be fulfilling his fuction as a poet if he records these things with integrity and with as much music as he can compass or as is appropriate to the subject".

(Louis McNeice)