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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.

Seamus Heaney

Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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Generation Important Myself University Win
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 hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
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 suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
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
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry

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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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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