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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.

Seamus Heaney

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start 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
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
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 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
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself

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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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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