It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
SEAMUS HEANEYIf you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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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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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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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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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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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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