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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.

Seamus Heaney

I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
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
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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Complication Factor Myself Point Talk
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 poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People

I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.

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