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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

Seamus Heaney

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing
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
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
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
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
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
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
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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