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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

Seamus Heaney

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’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
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
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 spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
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
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
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
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
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
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
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace

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