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I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

Seamus Heaney

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
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
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
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 don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Home Myself Reading Time
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
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
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
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
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
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

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