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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Seamus Heaney

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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Art Eternity Forever Kind Quality Small Time Truth
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
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
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
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.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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Conscious Imagination Myself People Poet
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

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