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

Seamus Heaney

I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
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
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
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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Conscious Imagination Myself People Poet
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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Arrangement Aware Old Problem Trick
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
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
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing

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