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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.

Seamus Heaney

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
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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Argument Aristocrats Behavior God Talk
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Academy Foundation Mindset Myself Name
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
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
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
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
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
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
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

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