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I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

Seamus Heaney

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize
It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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Difficult Heart Learning Rhyme
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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Dimension Ghost People Pleasant Quiet Training Yourself
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
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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One Liner Path Poetry
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
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
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Forever Life
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Complete Crisis Intimate Isolation Poetry
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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Generation Important Myself University Win
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Hope Maintain Start Yourself
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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Fact Lyrics Medium Poetry Recognition Truth
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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Dimension God Language Personal Promise Reality Yearning

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

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