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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.

Seamus Heaney

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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Family Farm Funeral Kind Representation Work
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
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
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
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
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
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Intense Language Myself Poem Reading Talk Thinking

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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