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I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.

Seamus Heaney

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally
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
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
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
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Brutal Change Citizenship Destruction Perception Possible Pursue Recognition
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

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