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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Seamus Heaney

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
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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Art Eternity Forever Kind Quality Small Time Truth
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
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
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
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
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World

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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