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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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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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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My feelings for you shame me into silence.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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Another day gone and no jokes.
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I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.
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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.
