Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
SEAMUS HEANEYOne of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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The end of art is peace.
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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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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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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.
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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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