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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Seamus Heaney

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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Conscious Imagination Myself People Poet
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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Family Farm Funeral Kind Representation Work
I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
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
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
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
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
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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Art Eternity Forever Kind Quality Small Time Truth
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

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