Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
SEAMUS HEANEYMy father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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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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Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
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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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What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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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 end of art is peace.
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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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I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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