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Seamus Heaney

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
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 what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
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
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World 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 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 fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
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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Big Listening Myself Speaker
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success

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