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

Seamus Heaney

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
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
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
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
The end of art is peace.
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Art End One Liner Peace
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
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
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
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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Expectation Group Poetry Position
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself

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

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