Irish - Poet | April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013
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.
Seamus Heaney
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I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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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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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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History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'
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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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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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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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