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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.

Seamus Heaney

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’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
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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Associate Creature Family Father Traditional World
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
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
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
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
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
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.

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