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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney

I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
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
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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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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Family Farm Funeral Kind Representation Work
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
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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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
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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Academy Foundation Mindset Myself Name
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
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
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

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