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My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

Seamus Heaney

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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Goddess Myself Territory Thinking
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
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
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
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

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My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

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