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Seamus Heaney

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
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
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
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
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk
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
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
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
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience Writing
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry

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