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Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Seamus Heaney

Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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 fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
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
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
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
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 point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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Complication Factor Myself Point Talk

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