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

Seamus Heaney

The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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Goddess Myself Territory Thinking
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk
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
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing

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