At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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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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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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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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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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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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The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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The end of art is peace.
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I spend almost every morning with mail.
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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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