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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 think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
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
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
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home 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
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
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Break Death Poetry
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Fake Intense Poetry Utter
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
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

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

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