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

Seamus Heaney

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
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
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Brutal Change Citizenship Destruction Perception Possible Pursue Recognition
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk

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

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