The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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We want the surprise to be transitive like the impatient thump which unexpectedly restores the picture to the television set, or the electric shock which sets the fibrillating heart back to its proper rhythm.Seamus Heaney
Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
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I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it.
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The wartime, in other words, was pre-reflective time for me. Pre-literate too. Pre-historical in its way.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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