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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Seamus Heaney

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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Goddess Myself Territory Thinking
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Academy Foundation Mindset Myself Name
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing

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