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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

Seamus Heaney

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
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
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
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
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 think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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Family Farm Funeral Kind Representation Work
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

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