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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Seamus Heaney

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’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself

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