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I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.

Seamus Heaney

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
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
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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Associate Creature Family Father Traditional World
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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Complication Factor Myself Point Talk
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
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
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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

I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.

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