Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
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If self is a location, so is love.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.
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The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.
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The end of art is peace.
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Im a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Walk on air against your better judgement.
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The appointment in Harvard gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.
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When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
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The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.