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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.
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Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.
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Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.
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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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I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.
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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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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
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The end of art is peace.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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My body was braille for the creeping influences.
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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
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Poetry is language in orbit.
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I drink to keep body and soul apart.
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Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
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