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The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Seamus Heaney

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
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
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
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
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
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry

The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

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