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

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe 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
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
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 poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
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
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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 experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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Expectation Experiment Myself Poetry Reason
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide

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

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

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