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I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

Seamus Heaney

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Attitude Authority Avoid Figure Habit Home
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize
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
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself

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