- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Contending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
- Ireland
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
- Nov 07, 2020
Write whatever you like!
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
- Authority
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
- Original
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
- Firm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
- Oratory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
- Northern Ireland
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
- Passport
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- Nov 07, 2020
My passport's green.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020