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

Seamus Heaney

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
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
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport 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
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
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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Family Farm Funeral Kind Representation Work

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

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