One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
SEAMUS HEANEYThe end of art is peace.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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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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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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The end of art is peace.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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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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