I spend almost every morning with mail.
SEAMUS HEANEYI always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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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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But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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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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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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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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The end of art is peace.
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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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The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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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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