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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Seamus Heaney

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Literature Ourselves Poetry
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize
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.
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Bright Interesting Life Myself Reflection Thinking Water
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Absolute Admire Greatness Lyrics Poetry
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Brutal Change Citizenship Destruction Perception Possible Pursue Recognition
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
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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Home Myself Reading Time
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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Generation Important Myself University Win
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin

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