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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Seamus Heaney

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
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
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
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Intense Language Myself Poem Reading Talk Thinking
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
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
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland – it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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Caste Loyalty Operation Religion System
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
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 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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