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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.

Seamus Heaney

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing
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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Absolute Admire Greatness Lyrics Poetry
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Attitude Authority Avoid Figure Habit Home
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
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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Goddess Myself Territory Thinking

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