It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
SEAMUS HEANEYSonnet is about movement in a form.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Write whatever you like!
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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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One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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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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I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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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 poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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