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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

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
But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Brutal Change Citizenship Destruction Perception Possible Pursue Recognition
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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Academy Foundation Mindset Myself Name
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
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
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
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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Deep Fake Feeling Imagination Sin
My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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Equal Evidence Experience Writing
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Command Move Success
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Poetry Translation
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
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

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