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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

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
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
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
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
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself 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
I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
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 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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