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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

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
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
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
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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Associate Creature Family Father Traditional World
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation

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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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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