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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing
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
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Absolute Admire Greatness Lyrics Poetry

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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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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