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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
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
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 completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally
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
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
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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

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