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" The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world. "

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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. "

" A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious. "

" 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. "

" The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it. "

" 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. "

" As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does. "

" To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there. "

" 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. "

" The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul. "

" Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. "

" 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. "

" Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye. "

" I spend almost every morning with mail. "

" At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. "

" You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality. "

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" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "

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" I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression. "

" The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them. "

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

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

" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "

" I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political. "

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