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At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Seamus Heaney

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
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
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
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
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
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
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
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself

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