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I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Seamus Heaney

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
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
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
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
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
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself

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