There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
SEAMUS HEANEYI always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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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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I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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I spend almost every morning with mail.
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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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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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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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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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