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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Seamus Heaney

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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Generation Important Myself University Win
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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 believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
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
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
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
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
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself

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