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Seamus Heaney Quotes

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written Picture Quote #1

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine Picture Quote #1

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you Picture Quote #1

Write whatever you like! Picture Quote #1

I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing Picture Quote #1

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure Picture Quote #1

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Human beings suffer, they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song can fully right a wrong inflicted or endured Picture Quote #1

Walk on air against your better judgement Picture Quote #1

The end of art is peace Picture Quote #1

If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way Picture Quote #1

Behaviour that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere Picture Quote #1

I shall gain glory or die Picture Quote #1

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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear Picture Quote #1

Wherever that man went, he went gratefully Picture Quote #1

Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between Picture Quote #1

My body was braille for the creeping influences Picture Quote #1

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life Picture Quote #1

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness Picture Quote #1

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Don’t be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport’s green Picture Quote #1

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based Picture Quote #1

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups Picture Quote #1

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note Picture Quote #1

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure Picture Quote #1

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself Picture Quote #1

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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew Picture Quote #1

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center Picture Quote #1

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D. H. Lawrence Picture Quote #1

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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written (Seamus Heaney Quotes) The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine (Seamus Heaney Quotes) There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Write whatever you like! (Seamus Heaney Quotes) I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing (Seamus Heaney Quotes) God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Human beings suffer, they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song can fully right a wrong inflicted or endured (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Walk on air against your better judgement (Seamus Heaney Quotes) The end of art is peace (Seamus Heaney Quotes) If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Behaviour that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere (Seamus Heaney Quotes) I shall gain glory or die (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Wherever that man went, he went gratefully (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between (Seamus Heaney Quotes) My body was braille for the creeping influences (Seamus Heaney Quotes) The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life (Seamus Heaney Quotes) If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Don’t be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport’s green (Seamus Heaney Quotes) But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based (Seamus Heaney Quotes) A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups (Seamus Heaney Quotes) As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note (Seamus Heaney Quotes) At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure (Seamus Heaney Quotes) In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew (Seamus Heaney Quotes) The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also (Seamus Heaney Quotes) 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 (Seamus Heaney Quotes) 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 (Seamus Heaney Quotes) I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center (Seamus Heaney Quotes) I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D. H. Lawrence (Seamus Heaney Quotes)

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