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Seamus Heaney

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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Complication Factor Myself Point Talk
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
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’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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Conscious Imagination Myself People Poet
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
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
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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Arrangement Aware Old Problem Trick
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
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

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

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