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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Seamus Heaney

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
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 came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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Generation Important Myself University Win
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul

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