Seamus Heaney Quotes

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

Seamus Heaney

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• The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Nice
  • Criticism
  • Anger

• Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • America
  • Happy
  • City

• The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

• I'm kind of like an open wound all the time, and that's hard. It's hard to deal with, especially in this industry. Every time I leave a movie, I feel like I'm going to die. Because you connect with these people, and then they all leave. I wish I wasn't like that, but I am.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Space
  • Use

• Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Medicine
  • Doctor

• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • May
  • Free

• Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Different
  • Gunpowder

• It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Endless

• From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Advanced
  • Private Interest
  • Publique

• Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knows
  • Really
  • Sacrificed

• I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Stones
  • DJ
  • Geritol

• Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Water
  • Rock

• For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Adventure
  • Darkness

• I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Stones
  • Oneself