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Sonnet is about movement in a form.

Seamus Heaney

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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Conscious Imagination Myself People Poet
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
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
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
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
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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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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Complication Factor Myself Point Talk
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience Writing
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion

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