“I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.”
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
