Sonnet is about movement in a form.
SEAMUS HEANEYWhether 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.
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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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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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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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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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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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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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It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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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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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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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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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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