I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
SEAMUS HEANEYIt 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.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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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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The problem as you get older, is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There’s no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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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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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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The end of art is peace.
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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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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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