In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEYIn Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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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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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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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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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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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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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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