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I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.

Seamus Heaney

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
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
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport 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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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Expectation Experiment Myself Poetry Reason
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
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift

I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.

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