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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

Seamus Heaney

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
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
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
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 credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
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
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
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
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme 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
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
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
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself

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