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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.

Seamus Heaney

Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position
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’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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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
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
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
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
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
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

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