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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.

Seamus Heaney

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  The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

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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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  I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

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  I’ve been in the habit of helping people.

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  Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

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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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  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’m not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades – it ’tis.

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  I don’t do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.

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  The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

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