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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

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
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
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
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
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
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion

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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