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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.

Seamus Heaney

At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Attitude Authority Avoid Figure Habit Home
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
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
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
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
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
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.

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