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The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

Seamus Heaney

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
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 think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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
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.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

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The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

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