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

Seamus Heaney

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
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
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Art Domestic Home Poetry
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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Case Chapter History Poetry
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Oneself Poem Swift
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Believe Civilization Improvement
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Community Deep Feeling Joy Moments Myself
Write whatever you like!
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Advice Writing
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
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

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