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You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
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
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
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
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
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
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland – it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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Caste Loyalty Operation Religion System

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