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SEAMUS HEANEYBut that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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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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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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