Seamus Heaney Quotes
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My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
For now that it was gone, it all seemed Far stranger: more fantastical than Pharaoh. And he was changed: a foreigner among them.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
Was music once a proof of God's existence? As long as it admits things beyond measure, That supposition stands.
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it.
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it.
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
Then I thought of the tribe whose dances never fail / For they keep dancing till they sight the deer.
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.