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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Seamus Heaney

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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Arrangement Aware Old Problem Trick
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
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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Generation Important Myself University Win
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

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