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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
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
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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Expectation Experiment Myself Poetry Reason
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
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
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
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
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
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching

There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.

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