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Seamus Heaney Quotes

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses Picture Quote #1

The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them. Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests. I'll dig with it Picture Quote #1

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Is there life before death? That's chalked up in Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, coherent miseries, a bite and a sup, we hug our little destiny again Picture Quote #1

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the queen Picture Quote #1

Call the miracle self-healing: the utter self-revealing double take of feeling. If there's fire on the mountain or lightning and storm and a God speaks from the sky that means someone is hearing the outcry and the birth cry of new life at it's term Picture Quote #1

The famous Northern reticence, the tight gag of place and times: yes, yes. Of the 'wee six' I sing Where to be saved you only must save face and whatever you say, you say nothing Picture Quote #1

History says don't hope on this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up and hope and history rhyme Picture Quote #1

It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark Picture Quote #1

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I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world Picture Quote #1

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole Picture Quote #1

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what’s said and what’s done Picture Quote #1

To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against Picture Quote #1

No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin Picture Quote #1

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for Picture Quote #1

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The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time Picture Quote #1

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people’s necks Picture Quote #1

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself Picture Quote #1

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir Picture Quote #1

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started Picture Quote #1

It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem’sconcerns or the poet’s truthfulness Picture Quote #1

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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward (Seamus Heaney Quotes) 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 (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker (Seamus Heaney Quotes) 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 (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses (Seamus Heaney Quotes) The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them. Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests. I'll dig with it (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Is there life before death? That's chalked up in Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, coherent miseries, a bite and a sup, we hug our little destiny again (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the queen (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Call the miracle self-healing: the utter self-revealing double take of feeling. If there's fire on the mountain or lightning and storm and a God speaks from the sky that means someone is hearing the outcry and the birth cry of new life at it's term (Seamus Heaney Quotes) The famous Northern reticence, the tight gag of place and times: yes, yes. Of the 'wee six' I sing Where to be saved you only must save face and whatever you say, you say nothing (Seamus Heaney Quotes) History says don't hope on this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up and hope and history rhyme (Seamus Heaney Quotes) It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark (Seamus Heaney Quotes) I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world (Seamus Heaney Quotes) The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what’s said and what’s done (Seamus Heaney Quotes) To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against (Seamus Heaney Quotes) No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for (Seamus Heaney Quotes) The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time (Seamus Heaney Quotes) I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people’s necks (Seamus Heaney Quotes) I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself (Seamus Heaney Quotes) It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir (Seamus Heaney Quotes) Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started (Seamus Heaney Quotes) It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem’sconcerns or the poet’s truthfulness (Seamus Heaney Quotes)

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