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One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.

Seamus Heaney

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
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
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
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Absolute Admire Greatness Lyrics Poetry
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin

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