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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme 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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On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.
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The next move is always the test.
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My body was braille for the creeping influences.
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I shall gain glory or die.
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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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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
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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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In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
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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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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.
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Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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