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The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

Seamus Heaney

I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Academy Foundation Mindset Myself Name
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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Argument Aristocrats Behavior God Talk
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
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Intense Language Myself Poem Reading Talk Thinking
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
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Absolute Admire Greatness Lyrics Poetry
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
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

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The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

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