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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

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
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
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
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start 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
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
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
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing

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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