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The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

Seamus Heaney

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
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
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
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
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Academy Foundation Mindset Myself Name
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
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
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

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The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

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