Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
SEAMUS HEANEYIn Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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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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Write whatever you like!
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I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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