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The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Seamus Heaney

I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
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
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
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
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
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
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
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

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