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

Seamus Heaney

I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
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
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize
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

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