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I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Seamus Heaney

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
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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 Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
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
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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Expectation Experiment Myself Poetry Reason

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

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