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In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.

Seamus Heaney

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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Family Farm Funeral Kind Representation Work
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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
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
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.

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In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.

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