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SEAMUS HEANEYI suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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It’s difficult to learn poems off by heart that don’t rhyme.
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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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The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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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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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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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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There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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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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It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them. They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
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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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At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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