There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
SEAMUS HEANEYI spend almost every morning with mail.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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The end of art is peace.
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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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We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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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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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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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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