There’s never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
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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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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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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I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
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Your temperament is what you write with, but it’s also how you deal with the world.
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I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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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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I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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