Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
SEAMUS HEANEYI suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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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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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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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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I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Write whatever you like!
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I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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