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

Seamus Heaney

There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
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
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
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
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
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
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry 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
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People

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