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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 poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
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
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
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
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
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
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize

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

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