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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

Seamus Heaney

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
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
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
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’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
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 end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young 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
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry

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