Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
SEAMUS HEANEYManifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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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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I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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I spend almost every morning with mail.
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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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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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I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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