Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
SEAMUS HEANEYWe go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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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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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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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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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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I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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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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If you go into an underground train in London – probably anywhere, but chiefly in London – there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries.
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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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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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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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