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Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
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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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
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 faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
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
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work 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

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