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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Seamus Heaney

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience 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
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
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
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
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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Art Eternity Forever Kind Quality Small Time Truth
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
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

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