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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Seamus Heaney

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
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
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
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
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
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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Argument Aristocrats Behavior God Talk
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
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
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

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