Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
SEAMUS HEANEYI suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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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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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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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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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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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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The end of art is peace.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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