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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

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
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
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
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
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift

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