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Seamus Heaney

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
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Academy Foundation Mindset Myself Name
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself

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