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

Seamus Heaney

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
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
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
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
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic

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

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