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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Absolute Admire Greatness Lyrics Poetry
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

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