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's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.

Seamus Heaney

Quotes to Explore

Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Think
- Baby
- Now
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Edmund White
- People
- American
- Die
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Frances Beinecke
- Past
- Ocean
- Creating
I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Adam Baldwin
- Drama
- Involved
- Escape
I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

Rachel Kushner
- Love
- Happy
- Silence