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

Seamus Heaney

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
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
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
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
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
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
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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Empowerment Expectation Forget Gift Writing Yourself
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
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 Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
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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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement

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