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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Seamus Heaney

It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
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
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
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 think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
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

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

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