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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

I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
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
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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Arrangement Aware Old Problem Trick
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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Goddess Myself Territory Thinking
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
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
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
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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Art Eternity Forever Kind Quality Small Time Truth
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

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