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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

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
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 experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
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 think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
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Intense Language Myself Poem Reading Talk Thinking
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing

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

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