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Seamus Heaney

"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."

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"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."

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"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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"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
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"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."
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"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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"I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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