Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
SEAMUS HEANEYEven if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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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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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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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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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Write whatever you like!
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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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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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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I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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