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Sonnet is about movement in a form.

Seamus Heaney

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
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
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
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
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young 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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Dimension God Language Personal Promise Reality Yearning
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
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
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
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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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

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