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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.

Seamus Heaney

Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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Goddess Myself Territory Thinking
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
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
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
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
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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Art Eternity Forever Kind Quality Small Time Truth
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk

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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