If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
SEAMUS HEANEYYou can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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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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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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The end of art is peace.
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History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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