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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

Seamus Heaney

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
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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Generation Important Myself University Win
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
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
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
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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Arrangement Aware Old Problem Trick
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift

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