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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 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
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
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience Writing
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
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
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
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself

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