Seamus Heaney Quotes
The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.
Quotes to Explore
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.
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If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.
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I believe that the presidential term should be limited.
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The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.
