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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Seamus Heaney

I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
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
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
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
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

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