I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
SEAMUS HEANEYWhether 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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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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I spend almost every morning with mail.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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The end of art is peace.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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