“Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly ...” — Seamus Heaney Quote

“Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.”

“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.”

“In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.”

“I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.”

“The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.”

“There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?”