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" I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. "
Seamus Heaney
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World
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" My passport's green. "
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" It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme. "
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" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "
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" Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. "
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" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "
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" I've been in the habit of helping people. "
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" I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it. "
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" I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university. "
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" Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system. "
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" Sonnet is about movement in a form. "
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" 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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" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "
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" 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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" Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. "
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" You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. "
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" I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment. "
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" 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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" The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky. "
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" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "
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" I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time. "
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" 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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" The end of art is peace. "
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