Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
SEAMUS HEANEYManifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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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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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland – it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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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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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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