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You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

Seamus Heaney

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
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
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
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
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
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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Goddess Myself Territory Thinking
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
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
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
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People

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