Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
SEAMUS HEANEYI’ve been in the habit of helping people.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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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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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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I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Write whatever you like!
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The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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