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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Seamus Heaney

The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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 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
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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Associate Creature Family Father Traditional World
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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
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’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
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself

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