Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
SEAMUS HEANEYI think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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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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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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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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I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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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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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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Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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