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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

Seamus Heaney

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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Dimension God Language Personal Promise Reality Yearning
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
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 think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
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
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
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

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