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

Seamus Heaney

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

Poetry Promotion
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 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
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland – it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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Caste Loyalty Operation Religion System
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Brutal Change Citizenship Destruction Perception Possible Pursue Recognition
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
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
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
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking

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