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Seamus Heaney

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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Expectation Experiment Myself Poetry Reason
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
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
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
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
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
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching

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