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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

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
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 murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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Associate Creature Family Father Traditional World
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person

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