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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.

Seamus Heaney

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
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
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
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
I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
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
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
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
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
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk

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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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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