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

Seamus Heaney

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
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
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
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
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
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
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
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

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