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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

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience Writing
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
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
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
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity 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
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry

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