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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.

Seamus Heaney

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
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
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
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
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
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
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
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
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
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself

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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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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