I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
SEAMUS HEANEYIt is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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I’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.
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Write whatever you like!
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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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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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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I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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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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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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