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Seamus Heaney

I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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Deal Temperature World Writing
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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Amount Culture Growth Help Material Myself System Thinking
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
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
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Brutal Change Citizenship Destruction Perception Possible Pursue Recognition
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience Writing

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

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