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

Seamus Heaney

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
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 Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Academy Foundation Mindset Myself Name
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
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
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
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
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Brutal Change Citizenship Destruction Perception Possible Pursue Recognition
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing

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