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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.

Seamus Heaney

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Brutal Change Citizenship Destruction Perception Possible Pursue Recognition
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
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 think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
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
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
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
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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
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
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace

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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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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