The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
SEAMUS HEANEYIn Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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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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My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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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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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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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 childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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