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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.

Seamus Heaney

I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
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
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
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

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