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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.
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It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.
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So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.
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Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase Be Here Now. If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Write whatever you like!
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
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The end of art is peace.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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My body was braille for the creeping influences.
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Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.
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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests snug as a gun. ~from the poem Digging
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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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Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
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