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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.

Seamus Heaney

You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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Arrangement Aware Old Problem Trick
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.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself

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