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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.

Seamus Heaney

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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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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Conscious Imagination Myself People Poet
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
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
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
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
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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Generation Important Myself University Win
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
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

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