Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
SEAMUS HEANEYThe poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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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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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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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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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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I spend almost every morning with mail.
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My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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