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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Seamus Heaney

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience Writing
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
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 group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
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
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
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
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking

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