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

Seamus Heaney

You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
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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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
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
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
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
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
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

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