The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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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I spend almost every morning with mail.
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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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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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The end of art is peace.
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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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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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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
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I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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