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

Seamus Heaney

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
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
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Attitude Authority Avoid Figure Habit Home
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
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Intense Language Myself Poem Reading Talk Thinking
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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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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Generation Important Myself University Win

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