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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.

Seamus Heaney

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
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
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
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
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
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
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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Complication Factor Myself Point Talk
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
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward

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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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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