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Seamus Heaney Quotes
«The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«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.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«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.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«It was like a moment of exposure to interstellar cold, a reminder of the scary element, both inner and outer, in which human beings must envisage and conduct their lives.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«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.»
Author: Seamus Heaney