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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Seamus Heaney

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
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
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland – it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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Caste Loyalty Operation Religion System
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
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
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul

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