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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Seamus Heaney

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
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
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
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
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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Argument Aristocrats Behavior God Talk
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking

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