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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Seamus Heaney

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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Design Fear Finding Myself Place Superstition Writing
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Citizenship Note Positive Reading Sin Writing
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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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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Arrangement Aware Old Problem Trick
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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Expression Solid Stress True Work Writing
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
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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Beautiful Injustice Situation Violence
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Form Movement One Liner
There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Country Known Unity Yourself
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

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