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The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

~Seamus Heaney

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I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

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My passport's green.

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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

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You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

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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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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: April 13th, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2013

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