At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
SEAMUS HEANEYThen as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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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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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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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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I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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