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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

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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Dimension God Language Personal Promise Reality Yearning
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’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
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
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People

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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