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Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

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
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
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
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 Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
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
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland – it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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Caste Loyalty Operation Religion System
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
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 don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
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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