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We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

Seamus Heaney

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
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
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
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
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize
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 murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
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Intense Language Myself Poem Reading Talk Thinking
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

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