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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk
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
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
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
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
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry

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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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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