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You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

Seamus Heaney

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
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
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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Complication Factor Myself Point Talk
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Attitude Authority Avoid Figure Habit Home
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing
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
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
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
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
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself

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