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

Seamus Heaney

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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Art Eternity Forever Kind Quality Small Time Truth
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
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
I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Death Light Myself Obsession Personally
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
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
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water

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

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