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Seamus Heaney

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
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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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Better Famous Myself Talk
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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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
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
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Need Poet Public Young Yourself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
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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Associate Creature Family Father Traditional World

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