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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney

A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
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
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
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
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
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme 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
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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Associate Creature Family Father Traditional World

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