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

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
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
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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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Expectation Experiment Myself Poetry Reason
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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 a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
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
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
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland – it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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Caste Loyalty Operation Religion System

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