Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEY
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.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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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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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Write whatever you like!
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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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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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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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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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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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