Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
SEAMUS HEANEYWrite whatever you like!
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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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’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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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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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 fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
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