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

Seamus Heaney

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience 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
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
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 think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
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 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

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

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