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" 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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" I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time. "

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" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "

" 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. "

" The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. "

" You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. "

" If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. "

" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "

" I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis. "

" I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. "

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" My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland. "

" Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started. "

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" Sonnet is about movement in a form. "