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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Seamus Heaney

What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk
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
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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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
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
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
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
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
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter

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