At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
SEAMUS HEANEYI have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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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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Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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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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Write whatever you like!
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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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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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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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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The end of art is peace.
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