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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Seamus Heaney

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
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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Art Eternity Forever Kind Quality Small Time Truth
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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start 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
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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Dimension God Language Personal Promise Reality Yearning
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Caution Natural Person
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

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