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Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

Seamus Heaney

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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Argument Aristocrats Behavior God Talk
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
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
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
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
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
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
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself

Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

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