There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
SEAMUS HEANEYMy father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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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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I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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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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In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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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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Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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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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You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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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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History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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