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Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Seamus Heaney

I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
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
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
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
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’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
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
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
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

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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