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" 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. "
Seamus Heaney
You
Water
Interesting
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" 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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" At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. "
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" I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression. "
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" I'm a firm believer in learning by heart. "
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" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "
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" My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally. "
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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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" Write whatever you like! "
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You
Write
" I spend almost every morning with mail. "
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Spend
Morning
" I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. "
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Whatever
Had
" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "
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Most
Art
" 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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Home
Been
" You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. "
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Go
I Am
" 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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Climb
Big
Up
" I've been in the habit of helping people. "
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Habit
Been
" You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality. "
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Yourself
Your
" My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God. "
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" One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges. "
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Go
Writer
Who
" 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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Fear
Always
Writing
" My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. "
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Last
Experience
" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "
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Much
" 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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Unexpected
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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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Against
" The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. "
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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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" 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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True
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Done