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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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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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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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
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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The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.
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I am a storyteller by trade.
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Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.
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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.
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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.
