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

Seamus Heaney

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
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
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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Argument Aristocrats Behavior God Talk
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
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
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth

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

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