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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

I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
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
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
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
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home 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
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
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life

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