My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
SEAMUS HEANEYPoems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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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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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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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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It 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.
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Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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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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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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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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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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