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

Seamus Heaney

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
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.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
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.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
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
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

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

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